Friday After Fourteenth Sunday After Trinity Ephesians 5:3-21

FRIDAY AFTER FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY [Submit] to one another out of reverence for Christ. Ephesians 5:21 + Paul continues to admonish. He knows that the Christians live in a world where it's considered natural to live in con­tradiction to God's will. He points out two forces that almost automatically take charge of people and begin to determine their wishes and values when they're not determined by God: sexuality and money. Both can be received as good gifts from God and be used joyfully and as a blessing. They can also be idols, however, from which we expect life's essential content and meaning. Then they have power over us. They become fornication and impurity, greed and the worship of mammon. We're constantly meeting p ... continue reading