Reflection 5 October – The Household Code – Joy Kingsbury – Aitken

by maryjo | Oct 5, 2025 | sermon

The Household Code in Ephesians by Joy Kingsbury-Aitken Back in May, on Mother’s Day, I spoke about the rise of the Trad Wife movement among young evangelical Christian women.  Much to my surprise that sermon generated considerable interest.  Today’s text is...

Reflection 14 September – Growing Up in Christ is Living our One Calling – Rev. Luke Blackbeard

by maryjo | Sep 15, 2025 | sermon

Ephesians 4:1-16 Growing up in Christ is living our ‘One’ Calling – Week 8 Introduction Remember our cake analogy we’d been using to describe the structure of the book of Ephesians? It reads sort of like a recipe, The first half is like the ingredients, the...

Reflection 7 September – Growing Up in Christ – Rev. Luke Blackbeard

by maryjo | Sep 8, 2025 | sermon

Ephesians 3:14-21 – Growing up in Christ – Week 7 Working out the dimensions of Christ’s love Introduction We’re back to Ephesians this week, our last week in Chapter 3, so while we’re more than halfway through the series, after today, we’re halfway...

Reflection 24 August – The Mystery of God Made Known -Rev. Luke Blackbeard

by maryjo | Aug 26, 2025 | sermon

Ephesians 3:1-13 – Growing up in Christ Week 6 The Mystery of God made known Introduction Well, we are officially halfway through our Ephesians series. Week 6 of 12. We’ll be taking a short break next week for our 5th Sunday Creative service and feast, but then...

Reflection 27 July – Growing Up in Christ – Rev. Luke Blackbeard

by maryjo | Jul 28, 2025 | sermon

Ephesians 1:3-14 – Growing up in Christ #2 Last week, Josh introduced us to our series working through Ephesians with the video from Bible Project, which illustrated how we can divide Ephesians into two parts: the first half about the good news of Jesus and the...