Abundant Love

Ephesians 3: 14-21 Rev. Nick Cheek Paul’s prayer for us this morning is this – that we might have the power to comprehend the breadth, width, height, and depth of Christ’s love. He prays that we would find strength, but not in human might…not a strength rooted...

Is It Really a Mystery?

  Ephesians 3:1-13 Rev. Rebecca M. Heilman-Campbell   One of my favorite holiday movies is National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase. Have you seen it? Its humor is irreverent and risky. We love it. We have a story in my family that is similar...

Grace

Rev. Nick Cheek First Passage:  Luke 10:25-37 Second Reading: Ephesians 2:1-10 In our passage this morning, Paul reminds us of one of the most marvelous, hope-filled words in all of Scripture: grace. It’s a word we hear often—especially in here. For those of us who’ve...

The Mystery of Prayer

Scripture and Prayer (Ephesians 1:15-23) Rev. Nick Cheek Twentieth Century Theologian, Karl Barth said that “Prayer is the act by which we accept and make use of a divine gift.”  Prayer a divine gift. But I wonder, do we really think of it that way?...

Breaking Down Dividing Walls

Ephesians. 2:11-20 Rev. Nick Cheek / Trinity Presbyterian Church When I was 21 I backpacked through Europe. One of the stops was Berlin. All throughout the city remnants of the Berlin wall still remain.  In 1961 the Berlin wall was built. Its official purpose was to...

Chosen

(Ephesians 1:1-14) Reverend Nick Cheek, This summer, we are beginning a series called Summer School, and our curriculum is the book of Ephesians. In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul wrote a lot of letters—letters to churches facing conflict, false teaching, or...