If I were rewriting the Bible, there are some things I’d want to take out. For one thing, I’d like to ditch all the confusing verses — the ones that puzzle me or don’t seem to fit. For another, I’d …
I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee — the home of Elvis, real barbecue, and one of the largest fault lines in the United States. My childhood featured earthquake lessons and emergency drills and preparedness lectures and — just once — an eternal, …
And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him… Colossians 1:21-22 …
Making peace by the blood of His cross. This is the final word — the period on the sentence of the description of Christ in Colossians chapter one. He was sacrificed to make peace. Bruised. Deserted. Accused. Rejected. Ashamed. Mocked. …
In verse 20 of the first chapter of Colossians, Paul wraps up one of the most beautiful and theologically concise portraits of Jesus found in scripture — describing who He is and what He’s done for us — with these …
In the center of the Apostle Paul’s paragraph describing Christ to the Colossians, he explains why Jesus is before all things: For in Him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell. Colossians 1:19 Christ is every ounce the …