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Our ultimate trust and obedience must be in the one God who already accomplished our salvation and therefore is trustworthy to fully apply it.

Deep trust in God produces deep questions during hard times.

God starts a conversation with His kids to transform and mature us.

God’s salvation by grace alone through faith alone is not freedom from his law, but freedom for his law.

Pentecost season focuses on the slow but sure growth of the Kingdom of God.

Psalm 2 reminds us that Jesus is the King who brings His subjects into the royal family.

Who we walk with influences how and where we’re walking. Psalm 1 helps us think carefully about both the path we’re walking and the people we’re walking it with.

Fitting the biblical pattern, at Pentecost the new disciples are first washed clean in baptism and, onced cleaned, come to the Lord's Table.

God kindly puts His promises into our hands as we gather for worship and witness Baptisms and come to the Lord’s Table.

Repentence and baptism bring new Christians into a church community marked by practices which reveal the Spirit's work among them.

Hebrews 12 teaches us that in gathered worship, we ascend Mt Zion and are caught up into the heavenly worship service.

At Pentecost, Jesus poured out the Holy Spirit from heaven, and baptism is one of the pictures God gives to help us understand that gift.

Paul lands the Ephesian plane in the practical everyday lives of normal followers of Jesus.

Father, Son and Spirit work together at Pentecost to bring others into their eternal, joyful life of love.

Paul teaches us about the nature of Satan’s schemes and the equipment we need to stand firm them.

The Spirit-inspired Scriptures give needed clarity about God's ongoing work.

For the family-friendly version skip to the bottom* Sermon Follow Up Summary In Ephesians 6:1-9 (and 5:22-33) Paul teaches us how to make our households hum the happy working song of the New Creation as authority and servanthood are reimagined and reshaped by Christ. Discussion/Reflection Material -What can we learn about God’s view of children from Ephesians 6:1-4? -Verse 4 calls fathers not to overreact, gracelessly provoking their children to wrath, but this doesn’t sancti

Pentecost signals the great scope and power of the Spirit's transformation.

Pentecost season teaches us power of long and steady, slow but sure transformation by Word and Spirit.

Paul shows us that marriage is a living picture of the Gospel.