Lance Brown

In Ephesians 6:1-4, we have vital instructions for teaching and training our children in two invaluable ways that affect their actions and attitudes for a lifetime. No one really likes to mete out discipline, but if we love our kids, we need to believe what the Bible says about discipline. Providing boundaries for our kids…

Our society often denies the differences between men and women. In addition to obvious physical differences, each spouse has different roles to plan when building the marriage. But, according to the Bible, what relational roles is a wife to play in building her marriage? What gets in the way living out her relational roles?

How is a husband supposed to love and relate to his wife? Our current culture really struggles with what the Bible says in Ephesians Chapter 5 because of misunderstandings about what Paul is referring to when he talks about submission and headship. The TRUTH is that in Christ’s upside-down kingdom, putting others before yourself is…

Ephesians tells us so much about what God intended for us to find in marriage. We have the PURPOSES of marriage…where we see it is NOT first about me. We have a PICTURE of marriage…in Christ and the Church, His bride. We have PERSPECTIVE on marriage…it is FIRST reflecting Christ to my spouse. And finally,…

When the Bible says things like “the days are evil!” [Ephesians 5:16] sometimes that comes as a surprise to us. Paul is reminding us here that time is precious, but that we sometimes watch opportunities that God gives us just pass us by rather than engaging. God rarely seems to send us opportunities when it…

The first part of Ephesians Chapter 5 exhorts us to accept a new role model, to be imitators of God himself. We also receive a new identity, as beloved children of God. Finally, it gives us new priorities to: Leave darkness behind, live as children of light, live a life of love, and live a…