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Author Walt, J. D. (John David), author

Title (Un)puzzled : Ephesians / J.D. Walt
Published Franklin, Tennessee : Seedbed Publishing, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (159 pages)
Series The Seedbed daily text
Seedbed daily text
Contents Cover -- Contents -- How the Daily Text Works -- Introduction -- 1. On the Difference between Living for Jesus and Living from Jesus -- 2. Why the Bible Was Not Written for the World -- 3. Why Do We Think Spiritual Blessings Are Immaterial? -- 4. Are You Adopted? -- 5. Why God's Plan Is Not for My Life -- 6. Only Two Kinds of People -- 7. Would the Real Seekers Please Stand Up? -- 8. Meet the Fellowship of the Holy Discontents -- 9. Why We Must Understand the Real Problem -- 10. On Starting Downton Abbey at Season Six -- 11. On Starting a Jigsaw Puzzle at the Center
12. On Picking up Our Pieces and Making Our Own Puzzle -- 13. Those Walls of Hostility -- 14. On Building Fireplaces -- 15. From Amazing Grace to Astonishing Grace -- 16. On the Difference between Information and Revelation -- 17. Are You Aware of Your Inner Being? -- 18. Why Love Must Become More than We Thought It Was -- 19. Are You Filled with the Fullness of God? -- 20. Why Discipleship to Jesus Outside of Relationships with Others Is Not Discipleship to Jesus -- 21. One Body, Twenty-Something-Thousand Denominations? -- 22. Why Down Is the New Up
23. Calling All Apostles, Prophets, and Evangelists -- 24. The Challenge of Growing up as a Grown-Up -- 25. The Two Groups down at the Church -- 26. How Behavior Management Stunts Your Growth -- 27. Would the Real Me Please Come Forth? -- 28. The Junior-High Beast Within -- 29. On Shifting the Center of Gravity in Your Life -- 30. So What Are You (Really) Angry About? -- 31. Until the Pattern Is a Person, It Remains a Puzzle -- 32. The Real Problem with Acceptable Pornography -- 33. On the Personal Devastation and Communal Decimation of Sexual Sin
34. The Least Asked Most Important Question of Our Time -- 35. Addicted to the Holy Spirit -- 36. Why Love Is Blind and Marriage Is an Eye-Opener (Part 1 of 3) -- 37. Why Love Is Blind and Marriage Is an Eye-Opener (Part 2 of 3) -- 38. Why Love Is Blind and Marriage Is an Eye-Opener (Part 3 of 3) -- 39. The Secret to Extraordinary Parenting -- 40. On Telling the Impossible Story to Impossible Situations -- 41. The Surprising Way of Becoming Strong in the Lord -- 42. And though This World with Devils Filled . . . -- 43. One Little Word Shall Fell Him -- 44. Thanks, Tychicus
Summary "We live in a puzzled world; all at once created by God and decimated by people. Reading the first two chapters of the Bible is like looking at an artistic masterpiece. Read the next nine chapters and it's like someone shattered the masterpiece into a million fragmented puzzle pieces. In his masterful letter to the Church in Ephesus, it is as if Paul is putting together a massive jigsaw puzzle. He shows how spiritual and material fit together, how male and female, slave and free, and even ethnicity and nationality connect and interrelate in this new creation of the kingdom of God. He reveals for us how the disparate pieces, powers, and principalities insert themselves into the affairs of heaven and earth. He gets granular at the level of husbands and wives, employers and employees, and even parents and children and how the gospel must work itself out from cosmic dimensions to everyday practicalities. The puzzle comes together in a marvelous way through this ancient letter to the Church in Ephesus. In the reflective, witty, and honest style he has become known for, J. D. Walt leads readers through this ancient letter as though it were addressed to them; only to discover it is. Get ready to be (un)puzzled."--Publisher
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, Dec. 10, 2018)
SUBJECT Bible. Ephesians -- Devotional literature
Bible. Ephesians -- Prayers and devotions
Bible. Ephesians -- Meditations
Bible. Ephesians fast
Subject Spiritual exercises.
RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Devotional.
RELIGION -- Devotional.
Spiritual exercises
Genre/Form Electronic books
Devotional literature
Meditations
Prayers and devotions
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781628245844
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Other Titles Unpuzzled : Ephesians