This 4 Week Series on Ephesians is from the Narrative Lectionary resource from
Working Preacher associated with Luther Seminary.
The narrative lectionary sermon series on Ephesians does not actually include what are probably the letter’s best-known verses, though one imagines it might not be difficult to find at least one occasion during a month of sermons to cite them!
They offer the content of the letter in miniature:
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God — not the result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life (Eph. 2:8-10).
Notice the emphasis on grace, on creation and redemption as of a single piece, on good works as a way of life, and on God’s planning of all these things before any of the recipients of grace came on the scene. These themes surface again and again in the letter.
All videos in this series are available in the
YouTube Playlist.
July 24, 2024: Ephesians 1:1-14 — God was planning something big before we knew it.
July 31, 2024: Ephesians 2:1-22 — The plan of God was necessary because of the estrangement humanity knew from God and one another, divisions broken down by Christ.
August 7, 2024: Ephesians 4:1-16 — The plan of God has implications not just for past estrangement but present and future growing up into Christ.
August 14, 2024: Ephesians 6:10-20 — In the present, God continues to make provision for us in the stillcontested arena of human life.