According to our text in Eph 6:5-9, servants should serve their masters as if they were serving the Lord, himself.  And masters should treat their servants with the same respect as Christ treats us.  Everything we do in our service to men should be done “as unto Christ.”  When you...

Ps 84:12 says, “O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.”  What are some of the blessings of trusting the Lord?  When you trust in the Lord: You’ll be sure – Prov 3:5-6.  “Trust in the Lord… and he shall direct thy paths.”  When we trust...

In Eph 6:1-4 we will study God’s command to children that they obey their parents.   Children, you are to obey your parents three ways. Obey your parents in the Lord – Eph 6:1 – this command to children is in the context of commands to husbands and wives, Eph...

Last Wednesday, Pastor Randy showed us that prayer puts God’s work in God’s hands.  God is in heaven with open hands waiting for us to pray.  He is ready to answer if we will just pray. In the Bible we find three things to do when you pray.  We are...

We’ve been preaching on effectual working.  First, we discussed that effectual working requires learning.  You must learn to hear God, to fear God, to obey God, and to know God.  Then we discussed that effectual working requires training.  Those of us who can train others must train them by example,...

In Ps 56:11, David said, “In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.”  He didn’t say, “Though I am afraid what man can do unto me, I’m going to trust God.”  Do you see?  He’s not trusting God and fearing...

Our text for this lesson is Eph 55:22-33.  The subject is marriage.   The pattern for marriage is the relationship between Jesus Christ and the church.  In Eph 5:30, we are members of Christ’s body, of his flesh and his bones.  This is the result of being baptized by the...

Prov 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”  This passage is not a promise, but it is a principle.  If you want your child to do something when he is old, you must train...

In the first four chapters of the Gospel of Luke, we see repeated references to the work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of John the Baptist and his family and Jesus Christ and his family.  When you read these chapters you understand that the Holy Spirit orchestrated everything. ...

There are seven key elements of Christian character found in Eph 5:15-21.  These are not all the qualities of Christian character.  But these are certainly seven of the most essential. If you are missing any of these in your life, you are going to struggle in some areas of your...