She is 26, and she aches for the children she cannot have. She is 30, and fears that she’ll never get out of debt or own a house. She is 37 and sobs that she’ll never be a great wife and …
He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them. Colossians 2:15 So we’ve let ourselves — or someone we love — down again. You’re a disappointment, we hear in our hearts. To your God, …
The soul always seeks to make itself whole. So, as our culture dismantles a biblical standard of righteousness, it has swiftly installed some high bars of its own: tolerance, fitness, environmentalism, clean eating, hyper-involved parenting, simplicity, productivity, charity — to …
When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ (Colossians 2:13). Our lives have been saved. Why, then, do we keep trying to save ourselves? thinking the work God is …
A few Sundays ago, I stood knee-deep in a sparkling lake and tasted one of the sweetest moments of my life: watching my husband baptize our youngest child and only daughter, Katy Claire. We had studied the meaning of baptism …
Take it from me: before you decide to write through Colossians, you should read chapter two, verse eleven first: In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by …
