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27 mins read|11/12/22
Epistles: Colossians 1:13-20 (The Last Sunday in the Church Year: Series C)
The epistle text from Colossians 1 declares how the great drama of redemption and human history ends. -
11 mins read|07/10/22
Epistle: Colossians 1:21-29 (Pentecost 6: Series C)
What might be a unique challenge of this text is how our preaching of it might itself resonate with its mystery. It goes to a broader question: How can we retain a sense of the “mysterious” in our preaching of mysterious texts? -
9 mins read|07/03/22
Epistle: Colossians 1:1-14 (Pentecost 5: Series C)
Paul is giving thanks for the reality that the gospel grows just as much in the little places as it does in the centers of power. -
25 mins read|11/18/19
Epistles: Colossians 1:13-20 (The Last Sunday in the Church Year: Series C)
The epistle text from Colossians 1 declares how the great drama of redemption and human history ends. -
13 mins read|07/15/19
Epistle: Colossians 1: 21-29 (Pentecost 6: Series C)
Baptized believers are in Christ and of Christ. Once they were alienated from and hostile to God, now they have been reconciled through the work of Christ. This forgiveness is not unconditional. Christ is the condition and, indeed, He fulfills all the conditions. -
10 mins read|07/08/19
Epistle: Colossians 1:1-14 (Pentecost 5: Series C)
The Father, then, “has qualified you” through the work of Christ to share in the family inheritance. This inheritance is the Family of God itself and the family of the triune God Himself.
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