From Prison to Praise by Brett Meador

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🗓️ 19 April 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Sitting in a prison cell, Paul had every reason to be sad, angry, or bitter, yet he chose to focus on Jesus and respond with joyful worship despite his crushing circumstances. In Ephesians 1:3–14, we see how Paul combines deep theology and worship as he praises God from prison, and we learn how to embrace that same mindset as we face our own trials.

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0:00.0	Well, we're going through the Bible verse by verse, chapter to chapter, book by book.
0:04.6	So let's go to Ephesians.
0:06.7	Turn to Ephesians chapter one with me.
0:10.4	And at this time I'd like to welcome our campuses, Mcminville over there.
0:13.6	Welcome to you guys in Hillsboro.
0:15.0	Glad you're all with us on this fine Sunday morning.
0:18.1	Ephesians chapter one.
0:19.7	Hey, did any of you brothers go to the Ironworks yesterday? Three of you. Oh, okay. It was a packed house. It was great. I wasn't there, but I did watch online. You say, well, Brett, where were you? Were you playing hooky? I kind of was. This weekend was busy. I had a little something going on. Let me show you what I was doing this weekend.
0:39.5	Here it is.
0:40.6	Yeah.
0:41.8	We had a nice wedding.
0:46.1	My daughter, Casey, married Hayden.
0:47.9	And Casey is no longer a met her.
0:49.3	She's a Banducci.
0:50.7	So, and we love the Banducci family.
0:54.7	We're so excited.
0:55.6	Casey and Hayden are great, great couple.
0:58.7	So they're officially married, and so that's what I was doing this weekend and a lot of fun.
1:04.0	But if you missed it, guys, Ironworks was great.
1:06.8	Josh Bidwell shared the word.
1:08.4	He's a former NFL guy played for years.
1:11.9	But now he's the chaplain for the Oregon Ducks,
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