Ephesians For You Quotes

“Christ, who died to save his body, now lives to serve his body.”
― Richard Coekin, Ephesians For You

“Here is the mind-blowing top blessing of faith in Christ: we have been chosen for adoption by the Father.”
― Richard Coekin, Ephesians For You

“The great theologian J.I. Packer writes: “You sum up the whole of New Testament religion if you describe it as the knowledge of God as one’s holy Father. If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much [they make] of the thought of being God’s child and having God as [their] Father.” (Knowing God, page 224)”
― Richard Coekin, Ephesians For You

“We will generally find that when we cry out in distress, he doesn’t remove us from our suffering, but brings brothers and sisters from our church family into our troubles, to carry us when we’re too weak to stand up ourselves.”
― Richard Coekin, Ephesians For You

“We enjoy our heavenly Father’s constant attention to our prayers, for he’s never sleepy or forgetful, never grumpy or uninterested, never powerless to help or unsure of what to do.”
― Richard Coekin, Ephesians For You

“The blessings Paul is speaking about are not the trivial and temporary trinkets of wealth and property, or even of him being released from prison, but the eternal treasures of personal reconciliation with God which we experience in this spiritual dimension.”
― Richard Coekin, Ephesians For You

“However ordinary we may feel, every local church that works together to teach the gospel of Christ is proclaiming the victory of his death and resurrection in the spiritual realms. Your church matters enormously to God—and so Ephesians is definitely for you!”
― Richard Coekin, Ephesians For You

“The epic explosion of praise for our blessings in Christ (Ephesians 1:1-14) deepens our appreciation of God’s almighty rule;”
― Richard Coekin, Ephesians For You