Family Matters.

Eight days in Ephesians

Before Paul tells us how to live, he tells us what God has already done for us. Over eight days in Ephesians, Pastor Hazen Stevens shows how being chosen, adopted, and filled with God's love changes your home and your relationships.

Chosen and adopted into God's family
God's people as the place where He lives
Being filled with the love of Christ
Walking worthy and living as light at home
Standing strong through hard seasons

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August 14, 2026 · Hannah Stevens

Secure in the Family

In this blog post, Hannah Stevens explores how Paul's opening words in Ephesians remind believers that their identity begins with being chosen and adopted into God's family. She explains that this secure place gives Christians an identity, a responsibility to reflect their Father's character, and an

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August 21, 2026 · Hazen Stevens

A Dwelling Place for God

In this blog, Pastor Hazen dives into how God's family is meant to become His dwelling place—not just a household, but a temple built through worship, prayer, and vulnerability. Drawing from Ephesians and stories of revival in Jerusalem and the Hebrides, he shows how entering the Spirit together (in

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September 2, 2026 · Hazen Stevens

The Crescendo of Ephesians

In this blog, Pastor Hazen dives into Ephesians 1–3 & the climbs toward one summit: chapter 3, where the mystery bursts open (Gentiles and Jews now one family, God's dwelling place) and Paul's prayer shifts from "may you understand" to "may you be filled." Two prayers, a

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September 6, 2026 · Hazen Stevens

Walk Worthy

In this blog, Pastor Hazen opens with Japan's villages of dolls and the rise of AI companions to name our generation's ache to be known, then picks up at the great pivot of Ephesians 4:1, where the letter turns from what God has done to how we respond. Drawing on the Global Flourishing Study's finding that people thrive where they are known and loved, he walks through three responses: pursue unity, operate in your gifts, and put on the new self.

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September 11, 2026 · Hazen Stevens

Light in the Lord

In this blog, Pastor Hazen continues at the summit of Ephesians 5, where Paul tells the church not that they walked into the light but that they are light in the Lord. Tracing the golden thread of light through Scripture, from "Let there be light" to "you are the light of the world," he shows how God, light, and words always travel together, unpacks the Greek behind "keep on being filled with the Spirit," and lands on the surprising discovery that nearly half of Paul's instructions in this passage concern our speech.

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September 20, 2026 · Hazen Stevens

Stand

In the final message of our Family Matters series, Pastor Hazen asks why a letter about family ends with armor. Walking through Ephesians 6, he retells Baudelaire's Generous Gambler and the stand at Thermopylae, tours the Roman armor an Ephesian would have recognized piece by piece, from the cingulum to the gladius, and lands on Paul's real conclusion: be strong in the Lord, put on the whole armor, pray without ceasing, and when the evil day has done its worst, be found standing.

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