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Bible Passage: Ephesians 6 I must say that I’m glad to be sharing on one of my favourite chapters in the Bible (among many, many, many others). Yippee! The book of Ephesians has a theme that is “Church – The body of Christ”, and I think if we were to read through the chapter either [...]

Bible Passage: Ephesians 5 Firstly I apologise for this very late posting. If you have already read today’s chapter, what are your thoughts? Feel free to leave a comment here for mutual encouragement. Several reminders from today’s chapter and I would like to focus on the first verse. “Therefore, be imitators of God as dear [...]

Bible Passage: Ephesians 4 Unity God wants unity. He never called for uniformity. Because He never meant for us all to be Exactly the same nor identical, you see. Unity means to be of one, And God desires for this; A oneness in church and harmony amongst all people, For with this, He will be [...]

Bible Passage: Ephesians 3 Though under arrest for the sake of the gospel, Paul asked his fellow brethren not to be discouraged, because he was being used in the service of God’s eternal plan. He seemed more anxious that the believers would feel disheartened than what he had to go through. Imprisoned in Rome, Paul [...]

Bible Passage: Ephesians 2 But God, the One True God, Jesus Christ, who is rich in mercy, so great is His mercy that He came to redeem men from their sins because of His great love with which He loved us, no greater love is that of a man who will lay down his life [...]

Bible Passage: Ephesians 1 I once asked a truthseeker student in my RE class what salvation means, and to my pleasant surprise, she replied with another ‘big’ word, “It means to be redeemed.” To check that we have the same understanding, I went on to elaborate how Jesus being sinless, died, shed His blood, defeated [...]

Bible Passage:  Ephesians 5-6 After 2 short days, we’ve come to the 3rd and final installment of the Ephesians series. 2 chapters.. Wasn’t really sure what to write actually. So many good teachings you could get out of these 2 chapters, not to mention every other chapter (or verse) from the Bible. But one particular [...]

Bible Passage:  Ephesians 3-4 Paul’s letter to the church in Ephesus emphasized the church herself, of which Christ is head. Chapters 3 and 4 can be broadly divided as follows: God’s eternal plan of salvation is extended to the Gentiles (Eph 3:6) Through the Holy Spirit, the believers can begin to comprehend the love of [...]

Bible Passage:  Ephesians 1-2 Do we live with an attitude of gratitude? Many times we might be too caught up with worldy affairs that we feel exhausted or upset with God when things don’t go our way. (Prov 23:4) Even though majority of us grew up in church or have been attending church services for [...]

Our reading programme brings us to Ephesians 1 – 3 today: Let’s read…. Bible Passage:  Ephesians 1-3 In a quick summary, Ephesians can be read in two readings because of a simple two-way structure adopted by Paul. Once again, as with our previous reading of Galatians, we find here that chapters 1 – 3 make [...]