Colossians
Colossians 3: How To Interact with One Another
Colossians 3: How To Interact with One Another Right Click to Download Intro I’m going to continue on in our study of Colossians by looking at Col. 3:16. If you’ll recall a couple weeks ago when Todd and I talked it was about how God changes us. We talked about how important it is to…
Read MoreColossians 2: The Cross and Human Guilt
Colossians 2: The Cross and Human Guilt Right Click to Download Colossians 2:13, 14 The cross has an unpopular message Tonight we’re looking at a couple verses that are fantastic for explaining the cross of Jesus Christ. They’ve been favorites of mine for years because of some of the imagery that Paul uses to convey…
Read MoreColossians 2: Answers to Questions
Colossians 2: Answers to Questions Right Click to Download (Buck) Intro: The kinds of questions we’re talking about are . . . (video of adds and things) That video was one Michelle ran accross in one of her classes. And the reason we showed it here is that we’re talking tonight about our culture, and where we turn…
Read MoreColossians 4: Sharing your Faith
Colossians 4: Sharing your Faith Right Click to Download Intro We’re finishing up our series on Colossians tonight. What I want to talk about is the topic of sharing Christ with people. It’s a fascinating thing to me to look at our culture and see how negatively evangelism, witnessing, proseletizing is viewed. I think part…
Read MoreColossians 2: Growing in your Relationship with God
Colossians 2: Growing in your Relationship with God Right Click to Download There are other voices . . . (2:8) I want to talk about Jesus Christ tonight. But I want to start in Colossians 2:8, where Paul warns us that there are competing voices in our lives that vie for our attention. And he calls them here,…
Read MoreColossians 1: Growing in your Relationship With God
Colossians 1: Growing in your Relationship With God Right Click to Download Intro The book of Colossians is great because here Paul is generally concerned for the spiritual well-being of these people. He doesn’t know them personally. But he has heard of them. They are new Christians and he is just concerned that they know…
Read MoreColossians 2: Answers to Questions
Who has the answers? (Buck) Intro: The kinds of questions we’re talking about are . . . (video of adds and things) That video was one Michelle ran accross in one of her classes. And the reason we showed it here is that we’re talking tonight about our culture, and where we turn for answers in our culture.…
Read MoreColossians 3: God’s Love
Colossians 3: God’s Love Right Click to Download People have significance in relation to Christ Last week: the negative Last week we talked about the things that characterized our life apart from God. And some of those things were kind of negative. Paul says to “put them all aside.” And “consider yourself dead to them.” …
Read MoreColossians 3: Leaving the Old Life: Where Change Begins
Colossians 3: Leaving the Old Life: Where Change Begins Right Click to Download Seeking God An extreme attitude Last week we talked about an attitude which is absolutely essential to growth and change in the Christian life: seeking God. Paul conveyed this attitude in terms of “seeking the things above” and “setting your mind on…
Read MoreColossians 3: The Hidden New Life
Colossians 3: The Hidden New Life Right Click to Download Last week, we talked about the different competing ideas and philosophies that present alternatives to God’s way. And, at the bottom of it all, Paul says, “They just don’t work.” That’s how he rounds out chapter two (read v. 23). He was talking about the religious…
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