A Slow Journey Through John

SJTE 35 - The SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations are available here (free download). WEEK 6.4: 17  Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer walk as the gentiles walk, in the futility of their minds; 18  they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart. 19  They have lost a...

SJTE 34 - The SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations are available here (free download). WEEK 6.3: 14  We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming; 15  but speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16  from w...

SJTE 33 - The SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations are available here (free download). WEEK 6.2: 7  But each of us was given grace according to the measure of Christ’s gift. 8  Therefore it is said, “When he ascended on high, he made captivity itself a captive;     he gave gifts to his people.” 9  (When it says, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also des...

SJTE 32 - The SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations are available here (free download). WEEK 6.1: 3 ... making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace: 4  there is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, 5  one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6  one God and Father of all, who is above all and through...

SJTE 31 - The SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations are available here (free download). This Week 5 Explore is devoted entirely to the second half of Paul's prayer in Ephesians 3:14–21, recapping a week spent on its three requests before Nick and Jamie discuss Paul’s prayer for boldness in an anxious Greco-Roman world, and why knowing we're loved by God and feel...

SJTE 30 - The SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations are available here (free download). WEEK 5.5: 1  I, therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2  with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love... The Wild Way exists for people hungry to walk the narrow path...

SJTE 29 - The SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations are available here (free download). WEEK 5.4: An imagination prayer based on Ephesians 3. The Wild Way exists for people hungry to walk the narrow path of love, as modelled by Jesus, resisting versions of Christianity that claim his name without reflecting his love and teaching. Our goal is to grow communities where th...

The SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations are available here (free download). WEEK 5.3: 20  Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, 21  to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen. The Wild Way exists for people hungry to walk the narrow path...

The SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations are available here (free download). WEEK 5.2: 16  I pray... 17  that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love. 18  I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth 19  and to know the love of Christ that s...

The SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations are available here (free download). WEEK 5.1: 14  For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15  from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. 16  I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit... The Wild Way e...

The SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations are available here (free download). Summary In this Week 4 Explore, Nick and Jamie recap the end of Ephesians 2 and the opening of chapter 3, moving from "we are the Holy of Holies" into Paul's own story as a persecutor turned apostle. The deeper dives land on two big claims: that the church's unity is a strong...

The SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations are available here (free download). WEEK 4.5: ... 10  so that through the church the wisdom of God in its rich variety might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. 11  This was in accordance with the eternal purpose that he has carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord, 12  in whom we have access in b...

The SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations are available here (free download). WEEK 4.4: 7  Of this gospel I have become a servant according to the gift of God’s grace that was given me by the working of his power. 8  Although I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given to me to bring to the gentiles the news of the boundless riches of Christ 9  and to ma...

The SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations are available here (free download). WEEK 4.3: 1  This is the reason that I, Paul, am a prisoner for Christ Jesus for the sake of you gentiles, 2  for surely you have already heard of the commission of God’s grace that was given me for you 3  and how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I wrote above in a few words,...

Happy birthday, Jamie! The ⁠ SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations ⁠ are available here (free download). Week 4.2: An imagination prayer based on Ephesians 2. The Wild Way exists for people hungry to walk the narrow path of love, as modelled by Jesus, resisting versions of Christianity that claim his name without reflecting his love and teaching. Our goal is to grow com...

The SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations are available here (free download). WEEK 4.1: 19  So then, you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God,  20  built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone;  21  in him the whole structure is joi...

The SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations are available here (free download). Summary In this Week 3 Explore, Nick and Jamie open with how "being in Christ" has personally shaped their own prayer lives and spiritual striving before recapping a week on Ephesians 2:1–22 — from dead-to-alive, to the tearing down of the dividing wall between Jew and Gentile. The d...

The SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations are available here (free download). WEEK 3.5: 17  So he came and proclaimed peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near,  18  for through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the Father. The Wild Way exists for people hungry to walk the narrow path of love, as modelled by Jesus, resisting versions of Ch...

The SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations are available here (free download). WEEK 3.4: 14  For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us,  15  abolishing the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making pe...

The SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations are available here (free download). WEEK 3.3: 11  So then, remember that at one time you gentiles by birth, called “the uncircumcision” by those who are called “the circumcision”—a circumcision made in the flesh by human hands—  12  remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel...

The SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations are available here (free download). WEEK 3.2: 8  For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God—  9  not the result of works, so that no one may boast.  10  For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we may w...

The SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations are available here (free download). WEEK 3.1: 4 ... but God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us  5  even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—  6  and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ...

The SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations are available here (free download). Summary In this Week 2 Explore, Nick and Jamie recap Paul's prayer in Ephesians 1:15–23 before diving deeper into what it means that believers are already resurrected, ascended, and enthroned with Christ, how to think about spiritual forces of darkness without over- or under-estimating the...

The SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations are available here (free download). Week 2.5: 1 You were dead through the trespasses and sins  2  in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient.  3  All of us once lived among them in the passions of our fl...

The SJTE Companion Journal, Small Group Guide, and Daily Affirmations are available here (free download). Week 1.4: An imagination prayer based on Ephesians 1. The Wild Way exists for people hungry to walk the narrow path of love, as modelled by Jesus, resisting versions of Christianity that claim his name without reflecting his love and teaching. Our goal is to grow communities where the characte...