Podcasts by Ephesians: The Calling of the Saints

The Infallible Posture (Ephesians 6:10-20) from 2023-12-14T05:02:03.354493

For some time now we have been studying the great passage at the close of Paul's letter to the Ephesians:

The Infallible Posture (Ephesians 6:10-20) from 2022-03-07T09:51:18.251280

For some time now we have been studying the great passage at the close of Paul's letter to the Ephesians:

The Infallible Posture (Ephesians 6:10-20) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.575478

For some time now we have been studying the great passage at the close of Paul's letter to the Ephesians:

Defense Against Defeat, Part 4 (Ephesians 6:14-17) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.572564

We are now engaged in examining Paul's great exhortation to the Ephesians to be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. We, as they were, are involved in the struggle and conflict whic...

Defense Against Defeat, Part 3 (Ephesians 6:17) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.571022

We are now embarked upon an attempt to explain life. We want to see why men are so bewildered at what is happening in the world about them, and why they are so impotent in solving the great problem...

Defense Against Defeat, Part 2 (Ephesians 6:14-18) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.569208

Discouragement, confusion, indifference -- these are the signs of the devil's working. Discouragement, with all that means in terms of depression of spirit, the playing over and over again of vain ...

Defense Against Defeat, Part 1 (Ephesians 6:14-17) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.567382

In this present series we are trying to understand life, both in the larger scene of the world and its ways, and in the immediate situation in which we find ourselves. We have already seen that it ...

The Tactics of Terror (Ephesians 6:10-13) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.561245

In this present series we are coming away from a very troubled, confused and despairing world to give serious consideration to the only adequate explanation for the human dilemma ever offered. That...

The Strategy of Satan (Ephesians 6:10-13) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.559377

In this present series we are seeking to understand the evident bafflement of the world leaders today who are trying to grasp and solve the problems of our human situation. We have already noted th...

Beginning the Battle (Ephesians 6:10-13) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.557717

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we are not contending a...

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The Forces we Face (Ephesians 6:10) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.555965

This passage introduces to us a subject which is so often treated as unworthy of any intelligent consideration that I feel it necessary to remind us, at the beginning of this series, that the whole...

Employers and Employees (Ephesians 6:5-9) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.554044

It is a remarkable coincidence -- not at all planned -- that in our study of the relationships of the Christian the consideration of employers and employees has fallen on Labor Day. I have experien...

Parents and Children (Ephesians 6:1-4) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.551875

In our series in Ephesians we are coming to another of the great relationships of life, that of parents and children. It is rather obvious that in our present world something has gone drastically w...

Husbands and Wives (Ephesians 5:22-33) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.549863

Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. (Ephesians 5:21 RSV)

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The Cure for Conflict (Ephesians 5:21) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.548261

The most common charge leveled against the Christian church in our times is that it is irrelevant to people's real problems, and does not help people where they live. The church is accused of avoid...

Watch how you Walk (Ephesians 5:15-20) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.546139

We have been looking together at the great passage in Ephesians where the Apostle Paul is dealing with the preparation of the Christian for living in a sick society. We have seen that the problems ...

New Morality or Ancient Foolishness? Part 2 (Ephesians 5:5-14) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.545097

In Paul's letter to the Ephesians, we are considering the section where the apostle relates the great principles of life to the thoughts and practice of a pagan world. He tells us how to live a Chr...

New Morality or Ancient Foolishness? Part 1 (Ephesians 5:3-4) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.543936

One of the burning issues of our day is sexual morality. A college coach in a Christian school told me not long ago of a young man in his school who said, "I'll follow the school rules in almo...

The Call of the Hour (Ephesians 5:1-2) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.542612

The task of Christianity is not primarily to get us ready for heaven. Though this has been the emphasis in past generations, it is, in itself, a relatively simple task as far as God is concerned. H...

Forgive and Live (Ephesians 4:30-32) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.541548

There is an oft-quoted prayer of an anonymous child who prayed, "Lord, make the bad people good and the good people nice." I think we all empathize with that prayer. So often it seems tha...

Living in Focus (Ephesians 4:28-29) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.540242

A number of years ago at Stanford University, Arnold Toynbee, the prominent historian, said that most people today have rejected Christianity on the basis of a caricature. What did he mean? He mean...

Practicing Christianity (Ephesians 4:25-27) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.539208

The question we are facing in the present series, centering on Paul's letter to the Ephesians in Chapter 4, is, How to live a Christian life in the midst of a confused world. That was t...

Putting On, Putting Off (Ephesians 4:22-24) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.537376

One way or another, put in their own way, Christians everywhere are asking the same question. They do not ask, "How can we be sure that when we die we will go to heaven?" Those who are ne...

Darkness of Mind (Ephesians 4:17-21) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.498334

What a baffling and confusing world we live in today. So many conflicting ideas and concepts are thrust upon us from every direction and many of them seem directly contradictory. Authorities of equ...

On Growing Up (Ephesians 4:13-16) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.497209

We have been examining the church, trying to learn from the words of the great apostle why the church is here on earth. We saw that it is not here to do what other groups can do; it is here to do w...

Shaping Up the Saints (Ephesians 4:11-12) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.494602

This week the eyes of the whole world were fastened upon an event of historic significance in the meeting of the Roman Catholic Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury. We were told that this was the...

The Church's Building and Maintenance Service (Ephesians 4:11-12) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.493522

Our subject is the building and maintenance service of the church. If you are a bit surprised by that title, let me reassure you: We shall not be talking about the janitorial service. The odd title...

The Contemporary Christ (Ephesians 4:11) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.492499

In our studies of Ephesians 4, we have learned that the church is not to be a pressure group to influence legislatures, or some kind of religious club intended to comfort and assuage the feeli...

Understanding your Gift (Ephesians 4:11-12) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.490413

Recently I listened to two radio programs, both religious. One was a panel of pastors and laymen discussing the subject, "Religion in the Space Age." The members of this panel were obviou...

What is your Gift? (Ephesians 4:11-15) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.489331

I have a sense of quickening anticipation and of enthusiasm in approaching this passage of Scripture again. It is somewhat akin to the feeling I had when I watched a surgical operation for the firs...

How the Church Works (Ephesians 4:7-10) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.488362

We are examining now Paul's great message to the church to be faithful to its calling. Today the church seems to have lost its sense of identity. Like someone suffering from amnesia, the church is ...

The Cry for Unity (Ephesians 4:1-6) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.486776

In this present series, we are concerned with the great questions the Apostle Paul is answering in Ephesians 4 about the fundamental nature and purpose of the church, and its relationships to ...

Why the Church Exists (Ephesians 4:1-3) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.485780

We have been considering the defense of the Christian in the midst of a highly confused and darkened world. Now it is important that we take up the equally valid matter of the place of the church, ...

How Prayer Works (Ephesians 3:13-21) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.484764

As we come to the end of an old year and the beginning of a new, most of us are engaged in an evaluation of what has happened through the past year. And we struggle with a sense of need for motivat...

Secret Riches (Ephesians 3:7-13) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.483721

We are dealing again with the great mystery which the Apostle Paul glories in, a mystery which began at Bethlehem with the song of the angels to the shepherds, and the beauty of a huge star sheddin...

The Great Mystery (Ephesians 3:1-6) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.482522

The first paragraph in Chapter 3 is, in many ways, the key to this great letter of Paul to the Ephesian Christians. Here he begins to describe in full detail the great mystery which he had dev...

The Third Race (Ephesians 2:19-22) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.471655

In Chapter 2 of Ephesians, we have been working through the great revelation of the Apostle Paul concerning the nature of the church. The title of this study, The Third Race, is not a r...

The Prince of Peace (Ephesians 2:13-18) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.470366

In Ephesians 2, we come now to a section in which the Apostle Paul deals with Christ's role as the great peacemaker among men. Here we will see him in fulfillment of that prophecy in Isaiah&nb...

Strangers in Darkness (Ephesians 2:11-13) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.469417

In the second chapter of Ephesians, we are looking together with the Apostle Paul at mighty truths, fantastic statements, which make us aware of what it means to be a Christian. If we ever really g...

On Display (Ephesians 2:7-10) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.468501

In Paul's great letter to the Ephesians, we are attempting to understand the underlying realities of life and of faith. In the opening words of the second chapter we looked at the condition which l...

Alive to Live (Ephesians 2:4-7) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.467438

In the second chapter of Ephesians, we are examining the great facts the Apostle Paul sets forth for us which explain who we are in Jesus Christ. Any psychologist will tell you that the basic solut...

But God... (Ephesians 2:4-6) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.460479

The title of our study this morning consists of two little words: But God... These open the fourth verse of Ephesians 2, the chapter in which the Apostle Paul is setting forth the...

The Human Dilemma (Ephesians 2:1-3) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.454763

I hope that you have already noted, in your reading of the book of Ephesians, this tremendous letter which so helpfully unfolds to us what life is all about, that its great theme is the unifying wo...

Hope, Riches, and Power (Ephesians 1:18-23) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.453844

I wonder how many of you are remembering my exhortation at the beginning of this series that you read through the book of Ephesians once a week until we have finished these studies. I'm sure that s...

Turned on by Prayer (Ephesians 1:15-18) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.452655

With Verse 15 of Ephesians 1 we leave the great doctrinal passage in which the Apostle Paul has been teaching the great facts underlying the Christian faith, and we turn now to his prayer...

The Word and the Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.451453

As we return to Ephesians this morning, we are still occupied with the great summary of this letter which Paul gives us in Verses 3 through 14 of Chapter 1. This is one unbroken sent...

The Mystery of Unity (Ephesians 1:9-12) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.450033

Today, in the first chapter of Ephesians, we will be examining a great question with which men continually wrestle in our day, as they have all through history: The question of whether or not there...

Liberated! (Ephesians 1:7-8) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.448978

In this first chapter of Ephesians we are trying to understand thoroughly the basic, foundational facts which underlie our faith and, therefore, underlie the experience of our lives. After all, wha...

The Foundations (Ephesians 1:3-14) from 2022-03-03T09:17:38.447758

In the epistle to the Ephesians we are still working together today with the great statement in Chapter 1 in which Paul is setting forth for us the great, fundamental facts of our faith in Jes...