Chris Sheppard

Ephesians 2 teaches that God makes dead sinners alive in Christ and creates them for good works prepared by Him. The message calls believers to find those purposes in the life of the local church through confidence, commitment, service, and

Drawing from Matthew 26 and 1 Corinthians 11, this message explains that the Lord's Supper is a remembrance reserved for the truly redeemed, warns against unworthy participation, and calls husbands and wives to examine their households

Ephesians 2 moves from spiritual death to the mercy of God, showing that salvation is His powerful work of making sinners alive with Christ. The only hope for those dead in sin is to look to Christ and be saved by grace.

Working through Ephesians 2:1-3, the sermon describes unconverted humanity as spiritually dead, enslaved to the world, the devil, and the flesh, and by nature under God's wrath just like the rest of mankind. It presses hearers to see their

Luke 9:57-62 calls for wholehearted discipleship that keeps serving Christ without turning back. The charge honors faithful service in the local church while pressing every believer to keep a steady hand to the plow for kingdom work.

Concluding this section of Ephesians 1, this message unpacks the immeasurable greatness of God's power shown toward believers and displayed in raising Christ, insisting that these deep doctrines must be experienced in the heart and not left

Continuing through Paul's prayer for the Ephesians, this message explains that spiritual understanding of God's truth comes only from the Holy Spirit's illumination, not human effort, and that theological truth must be lived out

Turning from the blessings of grace in Ephesians 1 to Paul's response to them, this message highlights how Paul praised the Ephesians for their faith in Christ and their specific, sacrificial agape love for the saints, and shows a pastor's

Reading the parables of the mustard seed and the leaven as warnings of false, corrupting growth within the visible church, the message names specific modern examples of doctrinal compromise while cautioning that disagreeing on how to

Ephesians 1 teaches election and predestination as bountiful blessings that display the grace, mercy, and love of God in salvation. The message urges believers to receive biblical mysteries by faith without forcing them into man-made