As Paul brings his letter to the Ephesian church to a close, he does so with perhaps the best-known teaching on Spiritual warfare in the Bible. He reminds us that life is bigger that what we see, hear, and feel—that there is a larger reality that we are part of, but that is also beyond us. As we close our studies of Paul's letter, we'll strive to take his teaching to heart for ourselves. 

Rick Warren has asserted that the most important questions for church leaders are around church health, not church growth. In the Covenant, we adopted the idea of being "healthy-missional churches"—"healthy" meaning we're pursuing Christ, and "missional" meaning we're pursuing Christ's priorities in the world. As we launch into a year focused on "Living in Freedom and Community," that's where we'll start on Sunday mornings—looking at what have been called "Ten Healthy Missional Markers" and how they can shape our life as a community.