The wonderful thing about the Psalms is that they always demonstrate some real-life emotions and experience towards some aspect of life. It maybe praises and thanksgiving, lament, or petition. The Psalms touch our hearts because we can so easily identify with the human condition being portrayed. In Psalm 34 David pours out his heart in
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As we discuss further the implications of what it means to “walk in a manner worthy of our calling”, we are taking a minor deviation away from Ephesians to explore Paul’s prayer in Colossians one. In this opening prayer we see a fascinating relationship between past, present and future. The past reflects the point of
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In today’s lesson, Paul, for the 5th and final time in this letter to the Ephesian believers issues a command to Walk. This command introduces the final section of this letter. He commands these believers to “Walk in Wisdom”. In Eph. 5:15-21, he gives the general principles for a wise lifestyle. Then for the balance
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Paul has exhorted the Ephesian believers to walk in a manner worthy of their calling (Eph. 4:1), to walk in holiness, not as Gentiles walk (Eph. 4:17), and to walk in love (Eph. 5:2), by imitating God. He commands them to put off the old vices of an unregenerate heart and walk in the virtues
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