Whether you like football or not, few things are cemented into the American psyche than good friends gathered around good food for the Super Bowl. Join us for a great potluck!

Tim Mackie says: “The gospel of Jesus enters the first-century situation and transforms it. We read Ephesians faithfully when we read it to gain wisdom for how the gospel seeks to enter our situation and transform it!”

Paul subverts the notion that the ordering of the household should be for the benefit of those in power by setting in parallel the “headship” of the husband in relation to his wife and that of Christ in relation to the church.

We have a choice as to what our influences are going to be. If we submit ourselves to the influence of the Spirit, we will be filled up with a life of the new creation.

Our holy lives ought to resist corrupted practices and replace them with life-giving patterns of conduct that draw on and radiate the resurrection power of Jesus.

Borrowing what we did for the last week of Advent, we stayed on a diverted course from our normal dive into Ephesians by recapping Ephesians 2 — especially as it pertains to what we need for a faithful, abiding 2023.

We took diverted from our normal rhythm in Ephesians and examined it through the lens of Advent. When you see the full Christmas narrative (Gen. 1-3, The Gospel accounts, Revelation 12, etc.), Ephesians takes on a whole new light.

Four years… It’s been FOUR YEARS since we planted City Parish. We are more and more convinced of God’s goodness with ever step we take into this journey.

We dropped the definite article ‘the’ in favor of ‘City’ and pursued a logo that intentionally captured our value of honoring the richness of our ancient/historic faith.