Do you ever have that kind of Tuesday morning when you’re trying to write a Bible study on Colossians, and you haven’t been able to get a Jason Aldean song out of your head for three days? Well I’m having …
My cousin lives in Boston. His wife was two blocks away from the finish line last Monday, running late on her way to cheer on a marathoner-friend. Then the bombs exploded, sending out the shrapnel of a thousand slow-motion moments …
Grace and peace. There are days when these words fall on us like ash instead of rain — times like yesterday’s Boston Marathon bombing, when sweet promises turn bitter and hope is shrouded in the smoke of our depravity. I …
One Saturday night a few weeks back, I stumbled upon a website about celebrity atheists and, much to the dismay of The Pastor, I read approximately 792 quotes from famous non-believers aloud to him while he ironed his preachin’ shirt …
So far we’ve talked about both the readers and writer of this letter to the church at Colossae to kick off The Colossians Project, and now we’re on to the content of the book itself. So let’s open those Bibles …
In case you’re not up on your Apostle Paul, his story from conversion to the end of Acts goes something like this: bright light, Jesus, blind, un-blind, preach, flee, jail, stoning, preach, beating, flee, preach, arrested, shipwreck, snakebite, preach, prison, …