Episode notes
Scripture Text: Ephesians 1:3-14
Bryan Buck
Quotes for Reflection
Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary
Flannery O’Connor once told a young friend to “push as hard as the age that pushes against you.” The church is to be a radically alternative people, marked by the love of the triune God in each area of life. But often we are not sure how to become this sort of alternative people. Though we believe deeply in the gospel, though we put our hope in the resurrection, we often feel like the way we spend our days looks very similar to our unbelieving neighbors—with perhaps a bit of extra spirituality thrown in.
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
The more we get what we now call ‘ourselves’ out of the way and let Him take us over, the mor ...