salvation
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Not only must we remember and rejoice in our acceptance in Christ, armistice in Christ, but thirdly, our access in Christ. Eph. 2:18 tells us, “18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.” There is no access to heaven or relationship with God outside of Jesus Christ. The Bible makes
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Have you ever forgotten something important only to remember it later? Let’s take losing your keys for example. That in-between time of forgetfulness and remembrance is a vast wilderness. We are making circles. We are lost. We have no direction. Our spouse may ask the ever-helpful questions, “Well where did you have them last?” Of
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The second nutshell truth of life in Christ is that we are saved through faith. Eph. 2:8-9 shows the relationship of grace and faith. You may be asking, “Which is it? Are we saved by grace or faith?” Yes. Both. Always. C.H. Spurgeon rightly declares, “It is not thy hold on Christ that saves thee;
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We live in a day that consumes bite sized media. The days of book, newspaper, or magazine reading have all but gone. In today’s world, both in the church and in the world, attention spans are far shorter. The average consumer of media or information of any kind has lost an appetite for the whole
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But. But God. My present condition in Christ is not one of death but of deliverance. I’ve been delivered from death and destruction. Eph. 2:4-7 shows us our present condition of being alive by grace while awaiting glory. These verses declare that the dead don’t have to stay dead. The depraved don’t have to stay
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Do you remember every Christian family’s obsession with Duck Dynasty? Everyone loved to watch their antics and appreciated their conservative views. They were real. They were relatable. But, like all trends they faded out. You will rarely hear them talked about anymore. I remember the next show that took the Christian world by storm. Fixer
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Continuing to look at the “Receipt of the Redeemed” by the witness of the Spirit that we have been eternally saved and are now eternally sealed. Our eternal salvation and sealing are both found in Eph. 1:13 which says, “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of
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Coming into the final leg of the grand doctrinal, doxological, and devotional sentence that opens the door to the book of Ephesians we will see that all our riches in Christ are safe and secure. As a pastor I have the privilege of shepherding God’s people in the local church. I get to study the
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We now move on to Eph. 1:4-5 which says, “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his
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Devotions for The Head, the Heart, and the Home 1 Cor. 15:3-4 Read: We all have our priorities in life but our priorities must line up with the priorities that God has ordered for our lives. When our priorities get mixed up then our lives get messed up. In order to make the Gospel a
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