October 5, 2025

Pastoral Thanksgiving

Teacher: Tim Paulding Series: Ephesians Topic: God's Secret Purposes Revealed Passage: Ephesians 1:15–17

Pastoral Thanksgiving (Ephesians 1:15–17) 

Your Relationship to Christ:

 

1) Demonstrated (vss. 15–16a) 

1 Thessalonians 5:18 

Philippians 1:18 

Ephesians 2:8 

2 Timothy 1:13 

1 John 3:14, 16–18 

John 13:35

 

2) Developed (vss. 16b–17)                  

1 Thessalonians 1:2–5 

Acts 7:2 

1 Corinthians 8 

Hebrews 1:1–3 

Ephesians 1:18; 2 Corinthians 3:18 

1 Corinthians 2:12–14 

Ephesians 5:18; Philippians 3:10 

John 8:19 

Colossians 1:9–12 

2 Peter 1:2–3