by Esplanad Gospel Centre | Aug 13, 2025 | Weekly Devotions
…that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.. – Ephesians 5:26-27...
by Esplanad Gospel Centre | Aug 12, 2025 | Weekly Devotions
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. – Ephesians 5:25 When we talk about love, we often think of it in abstract terms—a feeling, a romantic sentiment, an emotional high. But Christ’s love for the Church was not...
by Esplanad Gospel Centre | Aug 11, 2025 | Weekly Devotions
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands....
by Esplanad Gospel Centre | Aug 8, 2025 | Weekly Devotions
…from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. – 2 Timothy 3:15 Paul reminds Timothy that from his earliest years, he had been nurtured by the sacred writings—what...
by Esplanad Gospel Centre | Aug 7, 2025 | Weekly Devotions
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. – John 5:39-40 Jesus spoke these words to a group of religious leaders who had spent...
by Esplanad Gospel Centre | Aug 6, 2025 | Weekly Devotions
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh… – Romans 1:1-3 We often...