Ephesians 5:25 tells husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the church. Verse 28 adds that husbands should “love their wives...
When our family began to worship as part of our current church a few years ago, I was captivated by one of the church’s core values: “Everyone gets to play.” Our faith isn’t...
Through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Paul writes about the two appearances of Jesus Christ. The first appearing of Jesus Christ...
Whether you’re creating good in this world by faithfully serving others or by actually creating something like art, music, writing, or dance, it takes work. It takes time. It takes persistence. ...
The family pretended they weren’t home, but I saw them through the window. I knocked on the door again, only this time harder, and then stomped back to my car through the crunchy...
I worked at a warehouse the summer between my freshman and sophomore years of college. My job mainly consisted of loading and unloading trucks, along with tasks such as sweeping the floors. On more...
Roman society was one of the most stratified and hierarchical in all of human history. Members of this society knew their place...
In yesterday’s reflection, we began to examine the sense of the word “head” in Ephesians 5:23 and the following verses. We saw that head, used metaphorically in this passage, could mean “authority”...
Ephesians 5:23 gives a reason why wives should submit to their husbands: “For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which...
I expect that readers of this reflection may respond in a wide variety of ways to its title: Wives Submit to Your Husbands. Some will be curious. Some will be hopeful. Others might...
Each year, missions conferences concentrate on overseas missionaries, highlighting their good gospel work in foreign lands. During this emphasis, our sermons often...
Wherever two or more people are gathered in God’s name, a church and a body are created. And so are a community, a market, an economy, and politics. It only takes two of...
I spend the better part of my ministry life trying to get people to understand the beauty of their everyday labors; to...
Throughout the week, we’ve highlighted thinkers, theologians, marketplace philosophers and ordinary people who are simply trying to make sense of the topic...
I suppose there are some people who find it easy to submit to others, but many of us struggle with the imperative...
As we have seen, the dictionary definition of hypotassō, the Greek verb translated in Ephesians 5:21, is “subject oneself, be subjected or...
The Talmud has a saying: We see the world not as it is, but as we are. What is your view?
In yesterday’s reflection, we saw that the basic meaning of the verb translated in Ephesians 5:21 as “submit” is “to be subordinate,”...
Some morning, try to get up and spend the whole day without working. Unless it is one of those hyper-rare rainy days when the only demand is a good book or all-day ball...
In a way, our routines expose who we really are, instead of the version of ourselves that we have tricked out in...
