Yesterday, we looked at Paul’s teaching on husbands and wives in Colossians 3:18–19. Paul raised the standard for marriage, calling wives to honor their husbands and husbands to love their wives sacrificially, as Christ loved the church. But he doesn’t stop there. Because family is the foundation of the community…

(Based on Colossians 3:12-17) Yesterday, when we walked through Colossians 3:1–11, Paul reminded us of the destructiveness of sin. He showed us the danger of holding on to the old self—the anger, the greed, the lust, the lies, the selfishness that eat away at our hearts. He told us to…

(Based on Colossians 3:1–11) When I came to Christ, everything about me changed. My very nature shifted. I am not who I was. That “me” is dead and gone. But if you’re like me, you’ve probably realized that letting go of the old self doesn’t happen overnight. It’s a daily…

(Colossians 1:24–2:3) Have You Ever Wondered How You Fit Into God’s Plan? I think all of us have asked this question at some point. Where do I belong? What’s my purpose? Why me? I remember back in middle school, being bussed to a new school during desegregation. My classmates were…

Have you ever had a backup plan? Maybe you planned an outdoor wedding and had to secure a tent just in case the weather turned. Or maybe you tried cooking a new recipe but had a frozen pizza waiting in the freezer because you weren’t sure how things would turn…

Colossians 1:1–12 When you open the book of Colossians, you’re stepping into a letter written by a man who had every earthly reason to give up—and yet he didn’t. Paul, the author of this letter, was sitting in prison. More specifically, he was likely under house arrest in Rome around…