It was great to be together today as a church, and to join our voices to celebrate the good news of the gospel that has brought us together and given us new life!

This morning’s sermon from Ephesians 5:15-21, entitled: “New Life//New Wisdom & Influence” is available to listen to or download from here, or via our iTunes podcast feed.

The “Take-It-Home” Sheet for this sermon is available here.

And don’t forget, there’s the weekly memory verse song you can download to help you memorise portions of God’s Word. This week’s Ephesians Memory Verse Song — “Be Filled with the Spirit (Eph 5:19-20)” is available now!

(To download this song to your computer… For Mac Users, ctrl + Click and download linked file. For PC users, right click the link and “Save As” the file.)

Here’s the quotes for this week too…

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones:
“Paul’s great concern here is to give the Ephesians, and others to whom the letter is addressed, a panoramic view of this wondrous and glorious work of God in Jesus Christ our Lord.”

Jonathan Edwards:
“Resolved: Never to lose one moment of time, but to improve it in the most profitable way I possibly can.”

Richard Gaffin:
“This command is relevant to all believers throughout the whole of their lives.  No believer may presume to have experienced a definitive filling of the Spirit so that the command of verse 8 no longer applies.  Short of death or the Lord’s return, it continues in effect for every believer.”

Wayne Grudem:
“To be filled with the Holy Spirit is to be filled with the immediate presence of God himself.  It will result in feeling what God feels; desiring what God desires; doing what God wants; speaking with God’s power; praying in God’s strength; knowing with a knowledge that God himself gives.”