Colossians Series, Part 2

We continued on with our series on the book of Colossians. Last week we stopped with what I think is the centerpiece of the book, verses 15-18. This week we stepped through Col. 1:19-23 [+/-]Colossians 1:19-23
[19]For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to
dwell, [20]and through him [...]

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Colossians Series, Part 1

We began our series on Colossians this week. I’m just taking it scripture by scripture from start to finish. I have a couple goals with this series. First, I believe the theme of the supremacy of Christ is vital to understanding our individual purposes as well as participating in the mission of [...]

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The Nature of the Love of God

We’re human. We tend to forget the important things like taking time with our kids, rest, grace, and God’s love for us. I think this happens because we allow other more aggressive things like work, finances, busyness, etc to impose wrong priorities on us. So this week I endeavored to remind us [...]

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Unity and Diversity

As a church grows, often the existing members get a little nervous. And it’s understandable. The fear (often unspoken, but no less real) is that the church will lose some of its identity or unity. As more people come to Christ the church is filled with more variation; a wider range of [...]

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Touching the Untouchables

We took a look this weekend at two events in the ministry of Jesus that show us how we are to treat the outcasts in our culture.
First there’s the woman with the issue of blood read from the account in Mark 5:25-34 [+/-]Mark 5:25-34
[25]And there was a woman who had had a [...]

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