HPUMC: Ephesians Bible Reading Plan

Matt, Alex, Elizabeth and Hannah share their favorite moments and wrap up the Ephesians bible reading plan. Find the weekly email, group guide, and other supplementary materials to support your journey through Ephesians here: https://www.hpumc.org/reading-plans/ephesians

How are you praising God? Hannah gives us suggestions on new or different ways we can praise God. | Psalm 103:1-22 Find the weekly email, group guide, and other supplementary materials to support your journey through Ephesians here: https://www.hpumc.org/reading-plans/ephesians

How are we standing up against evil and staying firm in Jesus? Alex talks us through what spiritual warfare looks like for us today. | Ephesians 6:10-24 Find the weekly email, group guide, and other supplementary materials to support your journey through Ephesians here: https://www.hpumc.org/reading-plans/ephesians

Elizabeth challenges us to spend time figuring out how we can embody the story of the Gospel in our relationships and lives. | Ephesians 6:1-9 Find the weekly email, group guide, and other supplementary materials to support your journey through Ephesians here: https://www.hpumc.org/reading-plans/ephesians

Who are you putting yourself above? Rev. Matt Tuggle challenges us to look at how we are submitting to and loving one another. | Ephesians 5:21-33 Find the weekly email, group guide, and other supplementary materials to support your journey through Ephesians here: https://www.hpumc.org/reading-plans/ephesians  

We are new humans and children of God. Elizabeth references Ephesians 4:1 through 5:20 to get us to think about how we have been made new in God and that identity precedes any other status, relationship, or identity. Find the weekly email, group guide, and other supplementary materials to support your journey through Ephesians here: https://www.hpumc.org/reading-plans/ephesians

We are offered unconditional forgiveness. Rev. Matt Tuggle encourages us to read Psalm 51 so we can reaffirm that forgiveness is ours, beyond a shadow of a doubt. | Psalm 51:1-17 Find the weekly email, group guide, and other supplementary materials to support your journey through Ephesians here: https://www.hpumc.org/reading-plans/ephesians

We all have bad days, but it's how you handle it that shows your true character. How will you use those feelings to do what God would do in that situation? | Ephesians 4:17-5:2 Find the weekly email, group guide, and other supplementary materials to support your journey through Ephesians here: https://www.hpumc.org/reading-plans/ephesians

Hannah discusses what it means to truly be like the body of Christ and what that entails for us as Christians. | Ephesians 4:1-16 Find the weekly email, group guide, and other supplementary materials to support your journey through Ephesians here: https://www.hpumc.org/reading-plans/ephesians

We get to be part of God's transformed new creation, and He will bring that to reality by first having us see Him more clearly, and then being transformed in Him. | Ephesians 3:1-21 Find the weekly email, group guide, and other supplementary materials to support your journey through Ephesians here: https://www.hpumc.org/reading-plans/ephesians

Alex reminds us that the community of Jesus's followers is stronger when we are together. | Ephesians 3:20-21 Find the weekly email, group guide, and other supplementary materials to support your journey through Ephesians here: https://www.hpumc.org/reading-plans/ephesians

We have a choice of what to "put on" everyday. Hannah asks us what sort of behaviors we need to take off and put away. | Colossians 3:1-17 Find the weekly email, group guide, and other supplementary materials to support your journey through Ephesians here: https://www.hpumc.org/reading-plans/ephesians

What holds you captive? Your sin or Christ? Rev. Matt Tuggle walks us through asking ourselves these questions. | Ephesians 3:1-13 Find the weekly email, group guide, and other supplementary materials to support your journey through Ephesians here: https://www.hpumc.org/reading-plans/ephesians

Are your heart's desires aligned with God's desires? Hannah gives us some ways we can think through getting our desires for our life in line with God's. | Ephesians 2:3

What is your response to God, who found that His son's life was not too high a price to pay for our lives? Elizabeth challenges us to look inward and decide how we will respond to the grace given us. | Hebrews 4:12-16 Find the weekly email, group guide, and other supplementary materials to support your journey through Ephesians here.

Rev. Matt Tuggle gets us to look at our relationships and see if there is someone we need to reconcile with.

When we choose Jesus, we are being accepted into His family. Alex Johnston walks us through that idea in relation to what predestination means. | Ephesians 1:3-14

God is constantly inviting us into His freedom and Hannah invites us to actively lean into that freedom. | Romans 8:1-17

Jesus is king over EVERYTHING! Elizabeth challenges us to see if we recognize Jesus as our King over everything in life.

Rev. Matt Tuggle encourages us to stick with reading Ephesians, so that we can see more clearly and be transformed.