from Ephesians 3 Imagine writing one of the most encouraging letters of your life from a prison cell. That's exactly what Paul did when he wrote to the church in Ephesus. He was locked up; the Roman Empire was at the height of its power; and the Christians he was writing to were scattered in small house churches throughout one of the busiest, most cosmopolitan cities in the ancient world. They were worried. Their founder was behind bars. The odds were stacked against them. Th

Ephesians 1:15 – 2:10 Easter changes everything. Not just for Christians gathered in churches around the world on this one Sunday, but for every person who has ever drawn breath and wondered if death gets the final word. The answer, according to the apostle Paul, is a resounding NO . But to understand why, we have to start with an uncomfortable question. What Did Jesus Actually Come to Do? We have a tendency to shrink the gospel into something manageable. He came to make bad