Sermon By: Pastor Matt Spradlin

Ephesians 4:7-12

​The entire Christian life is one of grace.  Any growth we experience is undeserved favor from God.  Anything we accomplish is a gift of God’s grace.  Jesus has given us spiritual gifts as an act of His grace and He uses your spiritual gifts to strengthen and mature others in the church.

Sermon By: Pastor Matt Spradlin

2 Timothy 1:5 & 2 Timothy 3:14-15

​What is your greatest desire for your children?  That they be rich?  That they be good at sports?  That they be good in some area of endeavor?  Or that they be so in love with the Lord Jesus that they live for Him, that they be a faithful disciple of Christ?  What we focus on will determine what they value and what they live for.

Sermon By: Pastor Matt Spradlin

Ephesians 4:1-6

​God wants us to put our theology to practice.  God has not just saved us, but He has called us to live lives of purpose.  Paul describes seven theological realities that unite us, and all of them are rooted in the Trinity.  Our unity finds its source and its power in God.  Paul is saying we are already united in God, now we should put what we belief into practice within the church.

Sermon By: Pastor Matt Spradlin

​Ephesians 3:14-21

​Most of our prayers are for comfort.  We pray that we would not have any physical discomforts or emotional discomforts.  Nowhere in Bible does it say it is God’s will for you to be comfortable, but it does say it is God’s will for you to grow.  Paul is in prison but he does not pray for physical comfort.  Instead he prays for the church’s spiritual growth.

Sermon By: Pastor Matt Spradlin

Ephesians 3: 1-13

​We have all kinds of perceived needs, but our greatest need not a job, a house, good health, or finances.  Our greatest need is to know and follow God’s eternal purpose.  The book of Ephesians is about God’s purpose for the unity of church.  To not understand this purpose is like trying to build with the wrong blueprint.  Racial prejudice in the church robs the church of its witness because it undermines the message of grace.  The gospel transcends all barriers and makes us all one in the church.

Sermon By: Pastor Matt Spradlin

Ephesians 2:11-22

​There have been thousands of peace covenants brought by man that have failed.  The only eternal peace covenant that will last is the one made by God through Jesus Christ.  Sin is the great separator in this world.  Sin separated man from God, sin separated man from man.  Paul describes the greatest peace mission in history- Jesus through cross not only reconciled man to God, but He also destroys all barriers and brings all races together as one.

Sermon By: Pastor Matt Spradlin

Genesis 22

​Sometimes God asks us to give Him to most important thing to us, and we often want to hold on.  But it is faith that enables us to walk with God and hold onto Him and nothing else.  When our faith is put on trial, that is when we learn the character of God and that behind God’s promises is God’s power.  If we will place our faith in God, God will take that faith and use it to accomplish His purpose and His plan.

Sermon By: Pastor Matt Spradlin

Ephesians 2:1-10

​There are only two options: either all have to die for their sins, or someone has to die for the sins of us all.  That is what Jesus did upon the cross but then He rose from the dead.  Jesus is alive and because He is alive we can be forgiven of our sins, we can have a relationship with God.  All of that is by God’s amazing grace.

Sermon By: Pastor Matt Spradlin

Ephesians 2:1-7

​Bible teaches that man is not spiritually sick, but spiritually dead.  Our greatest need is not healing or reformation; our greatest need is regeneration, to be born again.  Jesus is the one who makes us spiritually alive and transforms us from objects of God's wrath to trophies of God's grace.

Sermon By: Pastor Matt Spradlin

​Ephesians 1:15-23

​Facts are useless in and of themselves, it is the meaning and purpose of those facts that give them significance.  We have spiritual truth right in front of us, but we do not always see its significance because our spiritual sight has grown dim.  God wants us to not only know of Him in our mind, He wants us to grasp and experience the significance of Him in our lives.