Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Ephesians 5. I mentioned in the previous devotional on Ephesians 4 that God’s love is a key theme in Ephesians and that, in Christ, we live worthy of the calling by acting in love towards one another. The opening verses of today’s chapter said […]
Ephesians 4
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Ephesians 4. God’s love is a key theme in this book of Ephesians: Here in Ephesians 4, these truths about God’s love were applied. In verse 1, Paul urged believers “to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.” That “calling” is the […]
Ephesians 3
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Ephesians 3. Paul described for the Ephesians how he prayed for them in verses 14-19 of this chapter. His prayer was that they would be strengthened spiritually by God’s power (v. 16). Specifically, he wanted them to know Christ by faith (v. 17) and go […]
Ephesians 2
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Ephesians 2. This chapter of scripture lays out clearly and logically what God has done for us in Christ. First, Paul described our need: we were “dead in [y]our transgressions and sins.” We were under God’s wrath by nature (v. 3b) and because we […]
Ephesians 1
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Ephesians 1. At the end of Acts 28, Paul was living in his own rented home and waiting for two years for his trial in Rome. During this house arrest, Paul wrote his “prison epistles”–Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon–so this seems like an appropriate […]
Acts 28
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Acts 28. This is the end of the New Testament’s record of Paul’s ministry. Although it is the end of the record, it seems clear that it was not the end of Paul’s ministry. According to tradition, Paul won his trial in Rome (the […]
Acts 27
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Acts 27. What is there to say about this chapter of scripture? In terms of spiritual growth, however there is very little to be had from reading this chapter, at least on the surface. But think a bit deeper about this. God is sovereign over […]
Acts 26
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Acts 26. Our reading from chapter 25 ended yesterday just as Paul, in prison in Caesarea, was about to speak to Festus, a Roman governor, and Agrippa, a Jewish governor / client king over the same area as Festus). Here in Acts 26 we read […]
Acts 25
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Acts 25. When we left Paul in our last reading from Acts 24, he was languishing in prison in Caesarea for two years (24:27). Caesarea is a nice place, right on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea but, if you’re in prison, that doesn’t […]
Acts 24
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Acts 24. Paul was taken from Jerusalem to Caesarea to protect his life from a plot by his Jewish opponents at the end of our previous reading in Acts 23. Five days (v. 1) after Paul arrived in Caesarea, his Jewish opponents showed up […]