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Ephesians 4:1 instructs us to “walk worthy” of our calling. The idea is that the weightiness of our calling in Jesus balances with the weightiness of our walk: that both bear the same weight of glory, for example. However, certain things in our lives can degrade the weightiness of our walk. One of those is […]

Pastor Steve Mickel encourages us to see God’s unimaginable love for us in the Person of the Father through Romans 8. You can find a copy of our liturgy for fathers here.

  We are moved by God’s blessings and the richness of His glory to pray for one another in present, powerful, and prophetic ways. Prayer is also an ongoing dialogue, back and forth between us and God, and a response to the language of Resurrection — the power living in us that raised Christ from […]

  The Holy Spirit is the least understood and most often neglected Person of the Triune God, what Christians call The Trinity. Some Jesus followers bear memories of painful distortions where the Spirit’s Person and work are misrepresented. Other traditions emphasize The Father-Son relationship, and so minimize the Spirit. However, Jesus’ teaching and Paul’s letters […]

Identity and purpose are hugely impactful categories. To flourish, we need a strong, stable sense of identity. We also long to live meaningful lives with purposeful intent. Identity and purpose are intertwined, with identity fueling purpose and purpose reinforcing identity. Ephesians contains a unique, paragraph-long sentence where Paul zeroes in on identity via God’s lavish […]

Many people have endless opinions about what the Church should be, but only Jesus creates it, working through Spirit-filled people. So, what should that look like? Among the most beautiful descriptions of the Church Jesus is building occurs in Paul’s letter named for the Ephesians. In response, Pastor and author Eugene Peterson coined the term […]