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A sermon series on the Apostle Paul's letter to the Ephesians
Living with the Ephesians Well for those of you who are visiting or haven’t been here in a little while, here at St Mary and St Martha we been reading through Paul’s letter to the Ephesians all summer. In some ways we’ve been living with the Ephesians… tramping the streets of Ephesus, listening to the market-talk, passing the Temple of Artemis, and sitting at the feet of the Apostle Paul as he writes from prison in Rome to the churches around Ephesus. We’ve drunk deep from the … [Read more...]
The Lectionary This week is one of the weeks that I take issue with the lectionary - specifically, what it has left out. If you’ve been following along reading all of Ephesians at home, you know that there is juicy stuff both between last Sunday’s reading and this one, and between this Sunday’s reading and next one. But it is also difficult, and controversial, and so we are given just this short section from the middle of Chapter 5. Here are some things you might have read in Chapter 5 that … [Read more...]
Blessed be you, O God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for you have blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. And so may our words and the meditations of our hearts be a blessing to you and to those around us in return, O Lord, our Rock and our Redeemer. Amen. When I think of the Body of Christ, here’s what comes to mind: • Arriving at our Lawrence Avenue site yesterday just after 9am, to find many of you already present, working hard at setting up the … [Read more...]