by Esplanad Gospel Centre | Aug 15, 2025 | Weekly Devotions
This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. – Ephesians 5:32-33 Many of us think of Christ in terms of roles and...
by Esplanad Gospel Centre | Aug 14, 2025 | Weekly Devotions
In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. ‘Therefore a man shall...
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....
