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  • Ephesians 5:25-33 - Harmony in the Home, Part 2

    Ephesians 5:25-33 - Harmony in the Home, Part 2
    2025/09/28
    The sons of Issachar understood the times and knew what Israel ought to do. In our day the battle will be won by happy, godly, Christ-extolling homes. Charlie Kirk’s counsel was the same: get married, have children, build a legacy, pass down your values, pursue the eternal.
    Christ who was rich became poor so that we might become rich in Him. He gave Himself up for the Church to sanctify and cleanse her, and to present her to Himself a glorious Bride. Our marriages are that story on a smaller scale. A man who does not love his wife as his own body lies about Christ and the Church.
    A husband’s love provides for his wife—paying the bills, resourcing her work, planning wisely, and spending in a way that shows he cherishes her as his own flesh. A husband’s love protects his wife. The story of Scripture is “kill the dragon, get the girl.” Adam failed; the Second Adam did not. Deceivers still target wives and children, so a husband’s love must be protective. A husband’s love also leads his wife. God gives the man a mission and gives him his Eve as helper. He must know his calling and communicate it so she can help him.
    The full gospel is “kill the dragon, get the girl, and save the world.” Husbands provide, protect, and then get to work building the kingdom.
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  • Ephesians 5:22-24 - Harmony in the Home, Part 1

    Ephesians 5:22-24 - Harmony in the Home, Part 1
    2025/09/21
    Peace in the home is a beautiful thing. Marriage was made for glorious harmony: a man leaves father and mother, cleaves to his wife, and the two become one flesh—a union that speaks of Christ and the Church. The devil hates that harmony and first struck it by turning husband against wife. In our day that strife has hardened into feminism, which divides men and women and pollutes the fountain from which children and nations flow.
    Paul does not tell all women to submit to all men. Every wife is to submit to her own husband, as to the Lord. That frees her from every other man, and it also limits a husband’s authority: a Christian wife is loyal to Christ first, and will not go along with sin.
    Marriage is about Christ and the Church making all things new. Christ lays down His life for His Bride; the Church receives His grace and multiplies it into the world. So the husband loves, serves, and labors for his wife, and she receives that life and brings it forth for others.
    Walk as wise women: do not feed feminist propaganda or try to become a man. Follow your husband’s lead—listen, trust, go along with him, and be patient. Do not live for yourself. Women were made to be life-givers. A godly wife creates gain; she is marked by her industry (Prov. 31). Be really into your husband and your children.
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  • Ephesians 5:15-21 - Cosmic Harmony

    Ephesians 5:15-21 - Cosmic Harmony
    2025/09/07
    Music reveals the order and beauty God wrote into the world. From Pythagoras onward, the Great Tradition has shown that harmony is not accident, but the rational order of the cosmos—an order we join with our own voices.
    Paul calls us to walk wisely, redeem the time, and be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Music does not waste time; it redeems it. Creation began with singing (Job 38:4–7), and singing still perfects the days.
    Music teaches us to help creation praise God, that it tunes us morally, that discord is conquered in a greater harmony—as God brings good out of chaos—and that many distinct voices, submitted to Christ, become one living temple (Eph. 2:21–22).
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  • Ephesians 5:3-14 - Children of Light

    Ephesians 5:3-14 - Children of Light
    2025/08/24
    Christ is the Light of the World. Darkness did not overcome Him, yet it remains. The Church is the city on a hill, called to let our light shine so that men may see our good works and glorify the Father (Matt. 5:16).
    We were once darkness, but God made us light in the Lord. Walk as children of light. The fruit is goodness, righteousness, and truth. Darkness is only an absence; light is substantial. When it shines, hidden things become visible and darkness flees.
    The Church illuminates the world by speaking the truth in love—preaching, testimony, gentle rebuke, and even holy mockery when sin parades itself with pomp—and, more fundamentally, by simply being light. Our lives and good works shine. The Church is not merely a walking protest; we call sinners into the kingdom of Christ.
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  • Ephesians 5:1-2 - Walk in Love

    Ephesians 5:1-2 - Walk in Love
    2025/08/17
    We were made in the image of God to reflect Him as His children. Sanctification is becoming more fully human as we put off the old self and look more like our Father, who is love—love made flesh in Jesus Christ. Ephesians 5:1-2 therefore calls us to be imitators of God as dear children and to walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself as an offering and sacrifice, a fragrant aroma to God.
    This love is not abstract. God interprets it for us in the historical, flesh-and-blood life of Jesus. The sermon contrasts that true love with the false loves we substitute for it: lust that grasps and consumes rather than giving itself up; words and warm thoughts without action, service, or sacrifice; and empty duty that keeps the form of love while lacking heart, joy, and the Spirit. Christ shows us the real thing.
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  • Ephesians 4:17-32 - Renewal in Christ

    Ephesians 4:17-32 - Renewal in Christ
    2025/08/10
    The Gospel we proclaim is first one of new life in Christ, and then one of morals. This is a whole lot different than mere moralism. For without the life of Christ, the moralism part won't work. It's like bearing fruit without having any roots. As Christ said to His disciples, so He says to us: "Apart from Me you can do nothing" (John 15:5). This is absolutely central to our life as Christians. We cannot participate in the economy of grace unless we first receive God's grace. We cannot become a life-giver, if we have not first received life. Alienated from God, we come thirsty to Him; but then, in Christ, we are grafted into new life. We abide in Him, and so we become actual Christians-not stoics, not deists, not humanists - but branches abiding in Christ's vine, and so we bear much fruit.
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  • Acts 6:1-7 - Ministers of Grace (Part 2)

    Acts 6:1-7 - Ministers of Grace (Part 2)
    2025/07/20
    Typically we think of economy as monetary. It certainly includes that. But originally, the word economy, from the Greek word, oikonomia, meant, literally, the law of the house (oikos means house, nomos means law). It referred to and encompassed all that went into good household management. Oikonomia involved how the paterfamilias, the man of the house, organized the resources, labor, and production within his home, including agriculture, slaves, and family matters. When this is applied to God’s world, we have His household in view: how God Himself manages His home. And as we’ve seen, it is marked by grace. It is marked by a continual giving that results in still more giving. This is how God’s household works: it is the rule of His home. If we will live in His home, this is the law we must live by. Our life ought to be a continual receiving of grace from God, through His various channels of grace, and then giving that grace out to those around us, becoming a channel ourself. In this manner is the household of God built up.
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  • Ephesians 4:7-16 - Ministers of Grace (Part 1)

    Ephesians 4:7-16 - Ministers of Grace (Part 1)
    2025/07/13
    In contrast to a worldly economy oriented around and motivated by, at best, natural self-interest, and at worst by avarice and greed, God’s economy is centered on the common good of seeing one another built up in Christ. In a worldly economy, you, the individual, are set at the very center of your world. Fortuitously, as you seek your own gain and your own profit, that happens sometimes to benefit others, too. But that’s not what God’s economy says. God’s economy of grace calls us to give ourselves to one another even as He has given Himself to us, so that we might be built up, united together, and filled with Christ. That’s the framework for our lives, the lives we live together, next to one another, near one another.
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