Mike and I celebrated 21 years of marriage last month, and this bit of Colossians 3:13 is one of the secret reasons why: Bearing with one another. This phrase sounds super spiritual — all “carry each others burdens” and such. But …
Six months earlier, we had launched our new and shaky church, and that night, I was spent from the striving. I did not want to host another church event — did not see how to endure another night of expectations …
Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all. Colossians 3:11 So much of our strength is spent trying to manipulate or manage ourselves into someone …
I try to make spiritual life about my feelings, or fairness, or even my faithfulness, but it’s been about knowledge since the very beginning, hasn’t it? And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every …
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Colossians 3:9-10 You …
The first list of sins in Colossians chapter 3 focused on sins of the body. But this time, we’re looking at you, lips: But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your …
