Dan Wuthrich
Passage: Ephesians 6:1-4 We have moved into a section of Paul’s letter to the Ephesian church that scholars refer to as the “household codes.” Here, Paul applies the truths of the gospel to the everyday relationships of husbands and wives, parents and children, and masters and slaves (which we would equate with employer-employee relationships). In […]
Passage: Ephesians 5:25-33 After taking a week to allow Paul to address wives, we move to his divinely inspired instructions for husbands. It is interesting that most people who balk at the idea of wives submitting to their husbands are all in favor of the following imperative for husbands to love their wives as Christ […]
Passage: Ephesians 5:22-24 A text like this morning’s is one of the reasons our church preaches straight through books of the bible. In this day and culture, it would be easy to skip a passage that many claim is an archaic remnant from an ancient patriarchal society. Contemporary feminism would accuse anyone who takes the […]
Passage: Ephesians 5:18 As we move back into our sermon series in Ephesians, we are going to take one week to look more closely at one verse, and more specifically, that verse’s reference to the Holy Spirit. Today in the church, we can see one of three tendencies when it comes to the Holy Spirit: […]
Passage: Ephesians 5:15-21 There are two ways for us to consider and “locate” this morning’s text within Paul’s presentation to the Christians in Ephesians. The first is to see this as a continuation of a long argument, beginning all the way back in 4:1 which sets forth the fact that the lives of believers should […]
Passage: Ephesians 5:8-14 If there is one thing that should be clear to us from our study through the book of Ephesians thus far it is that the Christian life is primarily a fight to believe and live out our true identity in Christ. This morning, as we consider Paul’s continuing instructions to Christians on […]
Passage: Ephesians 5:3-7 As much as Paul has been focusing on the stark contrast between our old life before Christ and our new life after salvation, it should come as no surprise that he would have some sharp words for the rampant immorality of the Ephesian culture and the need for Christians to have nothing […]
Passage: Ephesian 5:1-2 Two weeks ago, when we first addressed this text, I mentioned that we needed to spend some concentrated time to see how believers can develop intimacy with God that leads to growing holiness. My purpose in this message is to persuade you that God has given us the necessary means to grow […]
Passage: Ephesians 5:1-2 There may no more beautiful description of what the Christian life should look like than our text for this morning’s sermon. Closely connected with last week’s passage, Paul now encourages the Ephesian church by painting a word picture of what he has been teaching them about putting off the old man and […]
Passage: Ephesians 4:25-32 By now, it should be clear to us that it matters greatly to God how we live. Our lives before and after trusting Christ should be radically different. After all, we have moved from death to live because of the grace of God, and you can’t get much more different than that. […]