Echoes from Ephesians: A New Attitude
August 5th, 2025
Quick Glance: For Your Heart Today
We all have those moments when our reactions don’t match the person we’re becoming. That’s because we’re still learning how to live in our new identity in Christ. In Ephesians 4:21–32, Paul paints a picture of spiritual transformation—not by rule-following, but through relationship with the Holy Spirit. He reminds us that we’ve been given a new nature, and we are...
Echoes from Ephesians: Walk Worthy
July 29th, 2025
Quick Glance: For Your Heart Today
To “walk worthy” is to lead a life worthy of the calling we have in Jesus Christ. It is a calling that remembers our identity as citizens with God’s holy people and belonging in God’s family. It begins with Jesus and God’s love for us. Because of love, we have the more specific call: be humble, be gentle, be patient, make allowances for each other’s faults, be un...
Echoes from Ephesians: Empowered for Love
July 21st, 2025
Quick Glance: For Your Heart Today
Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 3 is one of the most breathtaking passages in Scripture. Not only does he pray for us to be strengthened by the Spirit, but that Christ would make His home in our hearts. That we’d be rooted in God’s expansive, limitless love—and filled with the very fullness of God. All of this crescendos in an outpouring of praise to the One who can d...
Echoes from Ephesians: One New Humanity
July 15th, 2025
Summary
In this sermon, Pastor Rachel Taylor invites us to consider what it means to be truly human in light of the Imago Dei—the image of God we bear both individually and collectively. Drawing from Genesis and Ephesians 2, she unpacks how injustice distorts our shared humanity and how Jesus came to restore what was broken. The message weaves biblical anthropology, theology, gender and racial jus...
Echoes from Ephesians: Alive to Thrive
July 8th, 2025
Quick Glance: For Your Heart Today
We weren’t just rescued—we were re-created. Ephesians 2:1–10 reminds us that we were once spiritually dead, shaped by this world, and bound by sin. But God—rich in mercy and great in love—made us alive with Christ. This isn’t just a new lease on life. It’s a new identity. A new position. A new power. In Christ, we’ve been given everything we need not just to surv...