The Trellis Podcast

Today's Passage: Ephesians 6:1-9 Today's Prayer: Lord, you are our great Father. You are our great master. Our Lord.    Whether in Roman culture or early American culture, we have a tragic past in the handling of Your image bearers, and those who are siblings in Christ, as lesser beings.    Father forgive us.   As Paul confronts this, He points both slaves and masters to You as our great Lord and...

Today's Passage: Ephesians 5:22-33 Today's Prayer: Oh Lord we love you. We praise you.    You loved us, your bride, the church, and gave yourself up for us.  You sanctify us, cleansing us with the washing of the water with the word.  Because of you, we are holy and without blemish.    Lord you know the word submission brings out a lot of feelings.  Submission is the opposite of what the world prea...

Today's Passage: Ephesians 5:15-21 Today's Prayer: Oh Lord, we love you.   Fill us with your spirit.  We want more of you.    Lord I pray today we are a people marked by thankfulness.   Make us acutely aware of all that you have done for us.    Psalm 103 reminds us to forget not all your benefits:  you forgive all our sins,  you heal all our diseases,  you redeem our lives from the pit,  you crown...

Today's Passage: Ephesians 5:6-14 Today's Prayer:  Oh Lord, we love you.    Anything we are is because of you.    Through you all things were made.  Without you nothing was made that has been made.   In you is life and that life is the light of all mankind. That light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.  What a privilege it is to be children of that light.    Today I ask t...

Today's Passage: Ephesians 5:1-5 Today's Prayer: Oh Lord, we love you.    We praise you because you are holy and worth imitating.    Let the truth that you call us beloved children sink in throughout our day.  We have done nothing to deserve that title, yet you have given it so freely.  Let our status as beloved children transform our thoughts, words, and deeds.    Father, you know how easy it is...

Today's Passage: Ephesians 4:25-32 Today's Prayer: Jesus, We love you. You Who there is no falsehood in. Who spoke the truth with your neighbors. You were angry and you never sinned. You did honest work with your own hands. And you had something to share with anyone in need. No corrupting talk came from your mouth, but only what is good for building up .Your words gave grace to those who hear. The...

Today's Passage: Ephesians 4:17-24 Today's Prayer: So we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding. Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God bet...

Today's Passage: Ephesians 4:8-16 Today's Prayer: Jesus, we love you.    You who are the head of the body, the church. The firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything you might have supremacy. For all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell in you, and through you to reconcile all things to himself, things on earth or in heaven, making peace by your blood, shed on the cross.    Jesus, ma...

Today's Passage: Ephesians 4:1-7 Today's Prayer: Jesus we love you. You who have shown us the way, shown us the humility and patience, how to bear with each other in love, you who united us in the Spirit, You who has brought us back to the God and Father of all, you who has not left us as orphans, but have empowered, and equipped us, love us, and will love us.     Fill us with your Spirit as you l...

Today's Passage: Ephesians 3:14-21 Today's Prayer: Father, we bow our knees before you today. We ask that you will strengthen us by the power of your Spirit. We ask that your Spirit will be alive and active within us. Make us a church with hearts dependent upon you. Dwell within our body so that we are firmly rooted and grounded in love. Strengthen our minds that we may begin to know the fullness...

Today's Passage: Ephesians 3:7-13 Today's Prayer: Father, your manifold wisdom is beyond our understanding. You don’t see as the world sees. You use the least of all the saints. You are not held back by our earthly constraints. Your ways are better. Empower us to speak the truth of your Word. Work through our lives to bring light to a broken world. Stir a passion within our hearts to make known th...

Today's Passage: Ephesians 3:1-6 Today's Prayer: Father, help us today as we long to grasp the mystery of the Gospel. You have given us your Word that we might read and know the truth of who you are. You have given us your Word that we might be encouraged and bound together as one body. As we hear your Word spoken over us, allow your people to have clarity. Create in us a depth of insight that onl...

Today's Passage: Ephesians 2:18-22 Today's Prayer: Father, you have joined us together and called us your dwelling place. You have called us fellow citizens and invited us in. You have built a firm foundation and given us your Son as the cornerstone. You have given us your Spirit that we may know you more fully. Let us not forget that we were once lost, strangers without a home, But you have calle...

Today's Passage: Ephesians 2:11-17 Today's Prayer: Father, you have called us to remember.   Remind us today that we were once far from you. Separated from Christ, and unable to grasp the hope that only you can give. But, in your great mercy, you sent your only Son. You bridged the gap, through the blood of Christ.   Remind us today that you alone are our peace. You have overcome the law, making u...

Today's Passage: Ephesians 2:8-10 Today's Prayer: Father, we were created by you and for you.   You have prepared our steps, and you have numbered our days. You have invited us to join you in the work of your Kingdom. We are your workmanship.   Yet, we are quick to assume we can earn your love.  We so often find ourselves working harder, checking the boxes of our spiritual to-do list. So quick to...

Today's Passage: Ephesians 2:1-7 Today's Prayer: Father, you alone are our redeemer and our hope.    You have called us your own.   You know every part of our hearts.  You know every harsh word that has come from our mouths. You know every worldly desire that consumes our thoughts.   Yet, in your great love, so rich in mercy, you chose to make us alive with Christ.   When we find ourselves caught...

Today's Passage: Ephesians 1:15-23 Today's Prayer: When I heard of the solid trust you have in the Master Jesus and your outpouring of love to all the followers of Jesus, I couldn’t stop thanking God for you—every time I prayed, I’d think of you and give thanks. But I do more than thank. I ask—ask the God of our Master, Jesus Christ, the God of glory—to make you intelligent and discerning in knowi...

Today's Passage: Ephesians 1:11-14 Today's Prayer: Father, we give you thanks and praises for causing us to hope in Christ and calling us your possession. For making us your children and heirs. Today, we choose to lay hold of the hope that is ours in Christ. In the places of our lives where we’re resigned and exhausted, we speak the hope God. In the seemingly intractable situations in which we fin...

Today's Passage: Ephesians 1:1-10 Today's Prayer: Father, we thank you, for how you have named us as saints. For how You are right now speaking a truer and better identity over us - calling us blessed, chosen, holy, blameless, adopted, redeemed, forgiven, and lavished with grace. Not just Blessed… but Blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places… Not just Chosen… but Chosen before...

We long to be a people committed to knowing our Father intimately, being attuned to where He is at work, and knowing His promises. We long to be a people who remember His ways are true and better. We long to be a people committed to learning and trusting His Word. Throughout the month of May—a month that can easily overwhelm and distract—our prayer is to draw our body closer to the Father through...

NOTES & LINKS: 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting Website PDF Guide to Prayer & Fasting Reach out to the Adult Ministries Team Information and Sign Up for the Missionary Lunch Dinner with Delaney Driscoll On February 5th from 6:30 to 8:30pm. Information on 21 Days Worship & Prayer Night on February 4th from 5 to 7pm in the Student Center

Today's Passage: Galatians 4:19 , Habakkuk 3:2 Today's Prayer:  O Lord, we have read in your word of your fame and your deeds. We have seen in our lives your fame and your deeds and we have seen in our church of your fame and your deeds.    We ask for more, here and now, in our time, for your sake. We are so thankful for our salvation and we ask for you to restore our joy in Your salvation.    Lor...

Today's Passage: Hebrews 10:19-25 Today's Prayer:  Lord, we love at all because you have loved us.  We make room for you, Jesus.  Will you animate us to deep, costly love for each other?  Quicken within us a heart that finds it easy to love our neighbors, our neighborhood, our city, our basketball team, our department, our world.  Jesus you have made a way for us. May we make a way for others sayi...

Today's Passage: Matthew 25:34-36, 40 Today's Prayer: Father, you are so close to the poor.  You even identify yourself with them.  You are concerned with their needs; you fight for those that are oppressed and you have called us to follow in your steps.  We ask that you would break our hearts for what breaks yours.  We ask that you would slow us down, open our eyes, and attune our hearts to the p...

Today's Passage: Micah 6:6-8  Today's Prayer:  Christ Our King,   Our world is overtaken   by unexpected calamity,   and by a host of attending   fears, worries, and insecurities.     We witness suffering, confusion,   and hardship multiplied around us,   and we find ourselves swept up   in these same anxieties and troubles,   dismayed by so many uncertainties.    Now we turn to you, O God,   in t...