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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|07/24/22
Epistle: Colossians 3: 1-11 (Pentecost 8: Series C)
We set our minds on things above, but our feet are firmly planted in the stuff of earth, our hands open to the treasure which is our neighbor. -
9 mins read|07/17/22
Epistle: Colossians 2:6-19 (Pentecost 7: Series C)
What pressures or dangers are these particular people, in this particular place, facing right now which keep them from being “rooted and built up” in Christ? What is keeping them from “abounding in thanksgiving”? -
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. -
10 mins read|12/19/21
Epistle: Colossians 3:12-17 (Christmas 1: Series C)
The text is not a legalistic set of principles. It is a description of the way things are for us, now that Christ has entered in.
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