9/21/2014

Pastor Phil Perry

Ephesians 6

Ephesians

Armed for Battle, part 3

Paul gives 2 more pieces of armor, the helmet and the short sword or dagger. These last two items would be the last items a Roman soldier took to prepare for battle and are critical to the life of the soldier. These represent salvation and God's word, tremendous gifts from God to us...

9/14/2014

Pastor Phil Perry

Ephesians 6

Ephesians

Armed for Battle, part 2

Continuing in Paul's illustration, we will consider the footwear and shield of the soldier. Peace and faith are the underlying truths of this metaphor, our lives need to be defined by them. Peace is something humanity desperately strives for and fails to find. Faith is a noble object that people desire but usually misplace. Both peace and faith are given to us to defeat the evil one...

8/31/2014

Pastor Phil Perry

Ephesians 6

Ephesians

Armed for Battle, part 1

Paul uses a visual so familiar to the Ephesians—Roman soldiers and their armor—to explain spiritual truth. He challenges them to stand and be strong, not in their own strength but through the resources that God gives us. We are expected to be victorious in our journey called life. All that we need has been given to us, so will we be successful?

8/24/2014

Pastor G. Victor Perry

Guest Speaker

Our God

Pastor Perry shares from God's word a little about our God.

8/17/2014

Pastor Phil Perry

Ephesians 6

Ephesians

Spiritual Warfare

Paul begins to turn towards the conclusion of this letter but not without an in-depth object lesson about "why". Why write this letter, why does Jesus love His church, why submit to one another, why the diversity of gifts, why, why, why? Because we are locked in a battle many of us are unaware of. A battle for the hearts and souls of men, one we are close to losing in the West...

8/10/2014

Pastor Phil Perry

Ephesians 6

Ephesians

Employees and Employers

Paul continues with the subject of submission and relationships. After family relationships, perhaps who we spend the most time with and have the greatest impact with is those we work with. Some days we may spend more time on the job than we do at home. Paul addresses relationships and submission at work next...

8/3/2014

Pastor Phil Perry

Ephesians 6

Ephesians

Children and Parents

Paul continues with the subject of submission and relationships.  He goes from husbands and wives to their relationship with their children.  These simple words are not so simple to always apply, but with God’s help we can become better families and more importantly better examples to a lost world of God’s intended order…

7/27/2014

Pastor Phil Perry

Ephesians 5

Ephesians

Marriage, part 2: Husbands love your wives

Paul’s teaching on marriage continues with a long section devoted to husbands.  It is easier to quantify submission, it is much harder to demonstrate agape love that a husband is commanded to have for his wife.  In our sin and desire for control, men we want our wives to respect us; but in reality the greater command here is for us to love our wives with God’s kind of love, do we?

7/20/2014

Pastor Phil Perry

Ephesians 5

Ephesians

Marriage, part 1: Wives and Submission

Paul gets even more practical over the next several verses talking about how families and business are to reflect living lives that are Spirit filled.  He addresses women first and then at length the husbands.  We will look at wives and marriage this week…

7/13/2014

Pastor Phil Perry

Ephesians 5

Ephesians

Spirit Filled Living

Paul continues his very practical section on what it means to be a follower of Jesus by emphasizing spirit filled living.  At salvation we are sealed (1:13) with the Spirit, Paul now tells us what that means. Are you living a Spirit filled life?

7/6/2014

Pastor Phil Perry

Ephesians 5

Ephesians

Children of Light

Paul uses the metaphor of light to compare/contrast how we are to live.  We come from darkness and are called to reflect the light of God in our lives.  Unfortunately too often we find ourselves desiring the darkness instead of the light we are called to live in…

6/29/2014

Pastor Phil Perry

Communion

Communion

We remember the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in song, word and by partaking of the communion elements together.

6/22/2014

Pastor Phil Perry

Ephesians 5

Ephesians

Imitators of God

We are called to imitate God our Father in our most intimate life.  We live in culture consumed with speech and sex.  This section address both of these matters and gives us insight into how God expects us to live in this crazy world of ours…

6/15/2014

Pastor Phil Perry

Update from the Kapenko Family

6/8/2014

Missionary Family Josh & Heidi Ausfahl

Missionaries

Partners in Ministry

Josh shares with us from God's word in Philippians 1 how we can partner with them in their ministry to those in South Africa and to those in our own community.

6/1/2014

Pastor Phil Perry

Ephesians 4

Ephesians

Don’t Grieve God

Paul gets intensely practical now in comparing the old and new man. In a series of contrasts Paul makes a clear distinction between the way of the world and the Way of God. It is so clear that there really can be no grey area; we either are living life as God wants or we are living like the world...

5/25/2014

Pastor Phil Perry

Ephesians 4

Ephesians

Out with the Old, in with the New

There is constant tension between what we want to do and what we are to do. This tension affects the unity of the church because we are made up of sinners and our sin natures impact our relationships. Paul reminds us that we need to stop living/thinking like the world and put on Jesus...

5/18/2014

Pastor Phil Perry

Ephesians 4

Ephesians

Growing Up

This section about gifts and growing up is an extremely important passage on God’s purpose and intention for the church.  There are many models and purposes out there, but none compare to this God inspired purpose statement.  The church is not designed to entertain you, meet your social needs or fix societies problems…

5/11/2014

Pastor Phil Perry

Ephesians 4

Ephesians

Unity of the Spirit

Paul begins the practical section of this book—“so what now” is the question he is answering.  Because we are radically rescued by God not through our own selves, because He is making us a new 3rd race—the church, so now we have an obligation on how we are to live. He emphasized the need for us to get along, so will we?

5/4/2014

Pastor Phil Perry

Ephesians 3

Ephesians

Paul’s Prayer for the Church

After expanding on this great mystery called the church, Paul goes on to pray for the church.  His prayer is filled with hope and is often used in worship today.  Paul was not simply giving us a pattern prayer, but telling us the source of the joy in his own ministry.  He loved the church, willing even to die for her, will you?