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This Podcast is part of a 10-year project to complete an in-depth, daily study of the entire Bible, chapter by chapter, verse by verse. 

Episode Notes:  Staying Strong (Ephesians 3: 14-21)
Welcome back, friends — it’s a joy to have you with me again as we continue our journey through Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. As we move into the second half of chapter 3, Paul does something beautiful and something deeply pastoral.
He prays.
Not strength for their bodies.
Not strong enough for their circumstances.
Not a strength for their finances or their health.
 But strength in their inner being.
 This is one of the most powerful prayers in all of Paul’s writings. It is a prayer for spiritual resilience and inner fortitude. As well as for a heart rooted in love and a life filled with the fullness of God.
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This Podcast is part of a 10-year project to complete an in-depth, daily study of the entire Bible, chapter by chapter, verse by verse. 

Episode Notes: Avoiding Discouragement When Times Are Tough. (Ephesians 3: 1-13)
Today we come to a passage that speaks right into the heart of something every believer faces sooner or later: Discouragement. And what makes this passage so powerful is that Paul writes it from prison.
He is cut off from the churches he longs to visit, living through circumstances he did not choose and cannot change, and yet he is not discouraged. In fact, he writes to the Ephesians so that they won’t be discouraged on his behalf.
I don’t pretend to have all the answers. But today I can tell you how the Apostle Paul handled discouragement, because he faced it, he lived through it, and he wrote about it with remarkable clarity.  And to see how Paul dealt with discouragement, we only need to look at what he says here in Ephesians 3….
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Episode Notes: What to Remember and What to Forget. (Ephesians 2: 11-22)
Now, as we move into the second half of this chapter, Paul does something very pastoral, very human, and very necessary. He asks a question. A question that every Christian, in every generation, needs to hear:
 How is your memory?
 Because Paul knows something we often forget:  The Christian life is not only shaped by what we believe, but by what we remember.
So, in this next passage, Paul gently takes the church by the shoulders and says: “Remember.”
This is a passage about identity, but it is also a passage about unity, reconciliation, and belonging. It is about the God who takes strangers and makes them citizens, who takes enemies and makes them family, who takes scattered stones and builds them into a temple.
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My History of the Christian Church: https://thehistoryofthechristianchurch.buzzsprout.com
The L.I.F.E. Podcast: (Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment Podcast).
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The Renewed Mind Podcast. My Psychology and Mental Health Podcast:
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This Podcast is part of a 10-year project to complete an in-depth, daily study of the entire Bible, chapter by chapter, verse by verse. 

Episode Notes: Deeper Still - Returning to Ephesians. (Eph 2: 1-10 Again)
Today, we’re doing something a little unusual. We’re going back into the waters of Ephesians 2:1–10.  Back into one of the richest, most breathtaking passages in the entire New Testament. Because some passages of Scripture are like a shallow stream, refreshing, simple, easy to cross…. But others… others are oceans, and Ephesians 2:1–10 is such an ocean.
 We’ve already walked through this passage once, but the more you sit with these verses, the more you realise there is more here. This is a passage that refuses to be exhausted.  So today, we’re going back — not because we missed something, but because Paul has given us something so rich that it deserves to be savoured again.
 We’re going to linger, and we’re going to let the text speak again, and hopefully speak deeper.
 So, take a breath, settle your heart, and come with me again into the deep waters of Ephesians 2:1–10. Because sometimes the most spiritual thing we can do is not press on with the project but to go back and listen again to what God has already said.
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This podcast is not associated with the Bible Project YouTube channel or any other associated podcasts that use the name 'Bible Project'. It is entirely the work of Jeremy R McCandless...
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Jeremy McCandless | Creating Podcasts and Bible Study Resources | Patreon
To receive my weekly newsletter and keep up to date with all five of my podcasts, subscribe at:
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Check out my other Podcasts.
My History of the Christian Church: https://thehistoryofthechristianchurch.buzzsprout.com
The L.I.F.E. Podcast: (Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment Podcast).
https://the-living-in-faith-everyday-podcast.buzzsprout.com
The Renewed Mind Podcast. My Psychology and Mental Health Podcast:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568891
The Classic Literature Podcast:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568906
To visit my Author page on Amazon and view my entire back catalogue of books on both Amazon and Kindle, and now also on Audible, Visit:
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