Tag: Ephesians 6
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The “Higher Calling” Trap of Vocations
A group of friends and I are doing a small group study using From Success to Significance: When the Pursuit of Success Isn't Enough. The following story is great food for thought: … The first time she [Rosalind Cook] sank here hands into a mound of clay at the age of twenty-six, her soul said,…
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Imago Dei and the Material World (Part 4)
I closed my last post with the question, "How then does our work in this time of the Kingdom "already but not yet" have an eschatological impact?" The first way our work has an eschatological impact is through our daily work. Through our work, we are formed and transformed. We come into the world with…
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Household: Household Code in Ephesians (Part 4)
Greco-Roman household codes were instructions to the paterfamilias on ruling over his household for the sake of the social order. They typically included instruction about wives, slaves, and sometimes children. The biblical writers tended to follow this pattern, as we have seen in 1 Peter and Titus. Ephesians does the same. We have just examined…
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Household: Jesus’ Household Code (Part 2)
(Continuation from the previous post) Status – Matthew 20:1-16 Adherence to, and enforcement of, status differences was another frequent concern of the household codes. It was argued that failure to respect status differences properly would cause the social order to dissolve into chaos. Jesus tells a parable at the beginning of Chapter 20: "For the…
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The Other Six Days: C9 – Understanding the Powers
The Other Six Days Part Three – For the Life of the World: Chapter 9 – Resistance – Grappling With the Powers Understanding the Powers As we go about being the Church in the world, we must be aware that we are not working in a neutral environment. There are forces and powers at work…