Why The Church is Amazing (Ephesians 2:11-16)

Key idea: The church is a people transformed and united by the gospel Two reasons the church is amazing I. A Reconciles People – Vertically to God (vv.11-13) II. A Unified People – Horizontally to One Another (vv.14-16) Small Group Questions Intro/Ice-Breaker:1. What is your favorite memory at Lighthouse? (Sunday service, event, youth group, youth […]

 Our Greatest Need: To Know God (Ephesians 1:15-23)

Key idea: Your greatest need, and your greatest delight, is to know God. Blaise Pascal: “…there was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain[s] to him only the mark and empty trace… he in vain tries to fill [it] from all his surroundings… But these are all inadequate, because the infinite […]

Paul, The Ephesians, and Us (Ephesians 1:1-2)

WORTHY Ephesians 4:1 – Walk worthy of the calling with which you have been called Four truths about Paul, the Ephesians, and us 2 Corinthians 5:21 — “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” Keeps you humble Keeps you […]

Jesus Loves Me When I Am Not Enough (1 Cor. 1:26-31)

When you feel like you’re not enough,  “God does not allow us to stay strong in ourselves because He wants us to stay close to Him.” J.I. Packer, Weakness is the Way Union with Christ: “The battle cry of the Christian is not, “I must try harder, I must try harder. I must try harder.” […]

Jesus Loves Me By Choosing Me: The Doctrine of Election

Romans 11:33; Deuteronomy 29:29 The Bible’s teaching that God, in eternity past and independent of people’s actions or goodness, lovingly chooses those whom he will save for his own glory. Ephesians 1:3-8 See also John 6:27, 44; 15:16; Acts 13:48; Romans 8:29-30; 9:10-13, 15-16; Thessalonians 2:13, 2 Timothy 1:9, Revelation 13:8 Ephesians 2:1-10 Romans 9:14-15 […]