November 18, 2018

Do you ever feel as if you are the only one?  Loneliness is a part of the world we live in and for the Apostle Paul he understood this as he concludes his letter to the church in Colossae.  So what does he write?  A final greeting with 10 different names of people who are also walking the path of faithfulness to the Lord communicating that they are not alone. Click the image of here to watch the service video.

LIFE GROUPS: Click here to access the Life Group Guide for Colossians 4:7-18

November 11, 2018

We all know that words are powerful. Words have the ability to convince, motivate and move us to action.  That is why the apostle Paul spends time talking about the importance of how we as Christ followers steward and use our words -- both our vertical words to God and our horizontal words to each other. Click the image or here to watch the sermon video.

LIFE GROUPS: Click here to access the Life Group Guide for Colossians 4:2-6.

November 4, 2018

In Colossians 3:22-4:1, Paul is reshaping the oikos – the social world of the church around the gospel of Jesus. In addressing slaves and masters, those at the bottom and the top of the social spectrum of the day, Paul elevates the worth of the powerless by recalling the image of God in everyone, and he compels the service of those who are powerful. As the church, we are called to serve the least and the lost and to value people who are made in the image of God, starting right in our own oikos. Click the image or here to watch the sermon video.

LIFE GROUPS: Click here to access the Life Group Guide for Colossians 3:22-4:1.

October 28, 2018

The letter to the Colossians delves into deep theology while at the same time giving practical direction to what family life is to look like. The mirror of God’s word tells us what is expected of husbands, wives, children and parents. Click the image or here to watch the sermon video.

LIFE GROUPS: Click here to access the Life Group Guide for Colossians 3:18-21.

October 21, 2018

Last week Paul told us what to take off. This week he tells us what to put on as God’s chosen, holy and beloved. We are to put on the spiritual clothing that will ultimately bring unity – as Paul would say, a perfect harmony among those in the church. Click the image or here to watch the sermon video.

LIFE GROUPS: Click here to access the Life Group Guide for Colossians 3:12-17.

October 14, 2018

In Colossians 3, Paul writes that we have been raised with Christ, and we should give our thinking, our talking and our walking lives to resurrection living. He says if we are to do that, there are some things we have to put off; some things to which we have been crucified in Christ. The key question we ask is “What are the ideas, philosophies, practices, triggers that give life to the things that draw us away from God?" Paul said by God’s grace and resurrecting power, put them to death, because they are killing the life of Christ in us. And so we dare to ask God to remake us, and by his grace, we take off yesterday’s clothes to be clothed with Christ. Click here to access the sermon audio.

LIFE GROUPS: Click here to access the Life Group Guide for Colossians 3:1-9.

October 7, 2018

The Apostle Paul spends time in chapter two revealing the heart of the false teachers. In eight verses he describes their asceticism, mysticism and legalism. All of it Paul says are mere shadows while the substance belongs to Jesus Christ! Can we discern the spiritual shadows in our lives? Click on the image or here to watch the sermon.

LIFE GROUPS: Click here to access the Life Group Guide for Colossians 2:16-23.

September 30, 2018

In Colossians 2, the Apostle Paul challenges the church to continue to grow in Jesus by putting down roots into the gospel. He warns them to not just add Jesus to their lives but to make him the authority of their lives. When we try to add Jesus to our lives, we'll struggle to fit him into our lives, our agendas and our plans. But when Jesus is the authority of our lives, he will inform and shape the way we live out every aspect of our lives. The question is: Who's in charge? Click on the image or here to watch the sermon.

LIFE GROUPS: Click here to access the Life Group Guide for Colossians 2:6-15.

September 23, 2018

Almost every aspect of our lives includes some kind of goal that we are aiming at – from the most mundane to the more complicated. The same could be said about church because we have a goal in mind when we enter – for the kids, because I have to, for the music, for the friends, etc. But for the Apostle Paul, the goal of what he is aiming at for the church in Colossae is to present them mature in Christ. Click on the image or here to watch the sermon.

LIFE GROUPS: Click here to access the Life Group Guide for Colossians 1:24-2:5.

September 16, 2018

The Apostle Paul wrote to the church in Colossae refuting the false teachers making sure that they understood the foundational truth... that Jesus Christ is supreme in the world, in the church, and wanting to be supreme in the lives of his people. Click on the image or here to watch the sermon.

LIFE GROUPS: Click here to access the Life Group Guide for Colossians 1:15-23.

September 9, 2018

“How can I pray for you?” This is a very personal question that pushes past thoughts and opinions to what is happening in our heart, and what we want God to enter in and help. The Apostle Paul in Colossians 1 gives us a look into the prayer he prayed for his fellow brothers and sisters in Christ that they would be filled with a knowledge of God’s will. What an example for us two thousand years later to pray. Click on the image or here to watch the sermon.

LIFE GROUPS: Click here to access the Life Group Guide for Colossians 1:9-14.