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The ‘Ephesians Moment’
I want to reflect on this significance of this by reference to a significant article by the missiologist Andrew Walls called ‘The Ephesian Moment: At a Crossroads in Christian History.’ (See Andrew F....
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Pastoring one another to maturity in Christ (Ephesians 4:13-5:2)
In Ephesians 4:1-12 we say that Christ has united us and Christ has made us different. As a result we all contribute something special to the common good. We need one another. But for what? What do we...
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Se xual temptation: an empty life or a full life (Ephesians 5:3-21)
This my latest lecture at Northern Training. I hope the various software filters that this passes through do not take out too many of the se x-related words. If there are gaps in the prose assume a...
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The expulsive power of Christ’s supremacy
When I was lecturing at Northern Training yesterday I recommended a couple of resources. The first was Thomas Chalmers famous sermon The Expulsive Power of a New Affection which is can be found here as...
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Ephesians 5:22-6:9 – the ‘household tables’
Here are my latest notes from my Northern Training lectures on Ephesians … The household tables Ephesians 5:21-6:9 contains three blocks of teaching in which the members of the church are addressed in...
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Defining submission and headship within marriage
We had an interesting discussion at Northern Training today on defining submission within marriage. I confessed that I found it hard to find a definition of the submission required of wives that did...
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More on submission and headship
I wrote the following in response to a comment on my post on headship. By the time I’d finished it, however, I thought I might as well post it. The comment said: ‘The thing with formulas is that they...
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Pastoring one another in community
Here’s a summary of part of my talk at the North American Total Church conference on ‘making disciples in missional church’. Pastoral care in community Churches often have a very professional approach...
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From description to prescription
Think how you would summarise Ephesians 5:1 in your own words: ‘Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children.’ I wonder if your summary focused on the call to imitate God or the description...
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Ephesians for small groups with Thabiti Anyabwile
Thabiti Anyabwile has just brought out a Bible study guide on Ephesians for small groups in the The Good Book Guides series of which I am the series editor. It’s called “God’s Big Plan for Christ’s New...
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