Colossians 2:8 taught us that we can’t let ourselves be held captive the latest fads and rules and internet wisdom of the age, but instead that we must be captive to the life and work of Christ, with body, mind, …
In the next breath after the Apostle Paul tells us that all of God is in all of Jesus, he makes it personal: …and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. Colossians …
Take it from me: before you decide to write through Colossians, you should read chapter two, verse eleven first: In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by …
A few Sundays ago, I stood knee-deep in a sparkling lake and tasted one of the sweetest moments of my life: watching my husband baptize our youngest child and only daughter, Katy Claire. We had studied the meaning of baptism …
When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ (Colossians 2:13). Our lives have been saved. Why, then, do we keep trying to save ourselves? thinking the work God is …
The soul always seeks to make itself whole. So, as our culture dismantles a biblical standard of righteousness, it has swiftly installed some high bars of its own: tolerance, fitness, environmentalism, clean eating, hyper-involved parenting, simplicity, productivity, charity — to …
