Upcoming Sermon Preparation for Sunday Worship (Updated 5.17.12)
Ephesians Series Suggested Resources:
Ephesians 2:13-18 will be our focus this coming Sunday. God has taken two very divergent groups and brought them together. These two groups have been reconciled to one another, and then together been reconciled to God. This all happens through the cross. Please consider reading Acts 10 for preparation for Sunday.
Discipleship Questions:
Why would God have used the Law to demonstrate disunity or hostility?
Read verses 14 and 15 in the NAS and ESV or NIV. How do they differ?
How should we think that God feels about people not being peaceful and living in hostility?
In-depth Questions:
Normally we see an order of reconciliation of men to God and then each other, but here we see a merger of two entities into one and then as one reconciled to God. Why is that the emphasis here?
Detailed Exegetical (deals with the grammar, interpretive issues, and scholarship)
Ephesians: An Exegetical Commentary - Harold W. Hoehner
Word Biblical Commentary: Ephesians - Andrew T. Lincoln
The Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Letter to the Ephesians - Peter T. O'Brien
Notes Epistles of St. Paul - J.B. Lightfoot
The International Critical Commentary: Ephesians and Galatians - T.K. Abbott
Calvin's Commentaries - Volume XXI - John Calvin
The Expositor's Greek Testament - Volume 3 - S.D.F Salmond
Expositional (deals with theological issues, some language, and systematic study)
New Testament Commentary: Galatians and Ephesians - William Hendrickson
Preaching the Word: Ephesians - R. Kent Hughes
The MacArthur New Testament Commentary: Ephesians - John MacArthur
The NIV Application Commentary: Ephesians - Klyne Snodgrass
The Epistle to the Ephesians - F.F. Bruce
Devotional (deals with personal application)
Everyman's Bible Commentary: Ephesians - Homer A. Kent Jr.
Ephesians - H.A. Ironside
The Christ in the Bible Commentary - A.B. Simpson