Ephesians 4:25 - 5:2

New Resources

  • Good Anger

    by Amy Lindeman Allen
  • Disregarded Virtues

    Video with Eric Anderson
  • Sermon Starters (Proper 14B)(2021)

    by Doug Bratt
    In his essay, “Christianity and Literature” in the book, Christian Reflections, C.S. Lewis argues that much of the New Testament assumes that major human relations (Christ to God, us to Christ) are imitative. Reflecting on that essay, Cornelius Plantinga notes, “Whereas modern criticism views imitation in literature, for example, as bad and unhappy (creativity, originality, spontaneity all put imitation in the shade), it is the normal way in the New Testament of presenting the art of life itself. “Only God, maybe only God the Father, is truly original. All else is derivative and reflective. Saints are not moral or spiritual geniuses. They are imitators. [Lewis writes] ‘Our whole destiny seems to lie . . . in being as little as possible ourselves, in acquiring a fragrance that is not our own but borrowed; in becoming clear mirrors filled with the image of a face that is not ours’.”
  • Proper 14B (2021)

    by Richard Carlson
  • Living for Jesus

    by Bob Cornwall
  • Proper 14B

    by Bill Loader
    always good insights!
  • Proper 14B (2021)

    by Stephanie Lobdell
  • Being Blood Filters

    by Jim McCrea
    We’ve all heard of people getting carried away with road rage or parents acting inappropriately at their child’s athletic game. But perhaps the ultimate example of out-of-control emotions leading to terrible behavior occurred 21 years ago in Waterloo, Iowa. I don’t remember hearing about this incident before last week even though this tragic incident happened in my former hometown. Apparently some kids were practicing hockey while their fathers were watching. The play got a bit rough, which led to an argument between two fathers and their argument, in turn, became violent. Before it was over, three young hockey players watched in horror as the father of a fellow hockey player beat their father to death. The children pleaded with the aggressor to stop, but to no avail. He didn’t quit until his opponent was beaten into unconsciousness with what would prove to be fatal wounds. In a doubly sad irony, the man who died in that incident had watched a different fatal fight years before — one between his father and his brother in which his brother ended up dead...
  • Imitating God

    by Beth Quick
  • Grieving God

    by Eleonore Stump
  • Proper 14B (2021)

    by Nathan Williams

Resources from 2018 to 2020

  • Good Advice

    Video with Eric Anderson
  • Preaching Helps (Proper 14B)(2018)

    by Doug Bratt
    In his essay, “Christianity and Literature” in the book, Christian Reflections, C.S. Lewis argues that much of the New Testament assumes that major human relations (Christ to God, us to Christ) are imitative. Reflecting on that essay, Cornelius Plantinga notes, “Whereas modern criticism views imitation in literature, for example, as bad and unhappy (creativity, originality, spontaneity all put imitation in the shade), it is the normal way in the New Testament of presenting the art of life itself. “Only God, maybe only God the Father, is truly original. All else is derivative and reflective. Saints are not moral or spiritual geniuses. They are imitators. [Lewis writes] ‘Our whole destiny seems to lie . . . in being as little as possible ourselves, in acquiring a fragrance that is not our own but borrowed; in becoming clear mirrors filled with the image of a face that is not ours’.”
  • The Tie That Binds: Forgiveness

    by Kathy Donley
    In his book, The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis paints a picture of hell as a huge, gray city. The inhabitants of this city live only on its outermost edges. There are rows and rows of empty houses in the middle. They are empty because everyone who used to live there quarreled with the neighbors, and then moved, and quarreled with the new neighbors and moved again. It is so large that it takes hundreds of years to travel from one end of the city to the other. All because its citizens can never resolve any differences and forgive each other. All they want to do is get as far away from each other as possible...
  • Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me

    by Stephen Hearne
    In the Elton John song “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me,” he sings “Don’t let the sun go down on me. Although I’ve searched myself, it’s always someone else I see. I just allowed a fragment of your life to wander free. But losing everything is like the sun going down on me.” How many times do we find ourselves allowing fragments of our lives to wander into things that are not really who we are as God’s children, and as a result, we find that we have lost something of ourselves? Occasionally, we are tempted to reject truth and allow anger to gain control of our lives. When this happens, we cannot “light the darkness” that surrounds us because we have lost control of what we once had and have let “the sun go down” on fragments of hostility...
  • Proper 14B (2018)

    by Phil Heinze
  • Proper 14B (2018)

    by Stephanie Dyrness Lobdell
  • Anger to Love

    by Kate Matthews
  • The Bread You Feed On

    by Nathan Nettleton
  • Proper 14B (2018)

    by Scott Shauf
  • Beyond Do's and Don'ts

    by April Yamasaki

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