Morning Reading: Ephesians 5.21, 22, 25, 31-33 NLT

And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord…. For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church….

As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.”

This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. Ephesians 5.21, 22, 25, 31-33 NLT

Peanut Gallery: Finding our purpose as others have before us… in God.

Walter Bright

WESTMINSTER SHORTER CATECHISM

Q. 1. What is the chief end of man?
A. Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.
Psalm 86; Isaiah 60:21; Romans 11:36; 1 Corinthians 6:20; 10:31

Q. 2. What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him?
A. The Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments,is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him.
Psalm 16:5-11; Psalm 144:15; Luke 2:10; Philippians 4:4

Q. 3. What do the Scriptures principally teach?
A. The Scriptures principally teach, what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.
Matthew 19:4-5; 1 Corinthians 2:13; 2 Peter 1:20-21; 2Peter 3:2, 15-16

Q. 4. What is God?
A. God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness…

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Morning Reading: Ephesians 5.1-2 NLT

“Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children. Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God.“ Ephesians 5.1-2 NLT

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Peanut Gallery: Thank you Stumbling into Grace with SPTP2011 for bringing this to our attention. It fits today’s readings perfectly. “Ask and you shall receive.” (Matthew 7.6-8)

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