Partnership

How do you know when the gospel has truly taken root? There are many ways you might try and answer but Paul thanks God as the fruit faith, love, and hope surface visibly in the life of the Colossians. How might they look in your life, today?

The letter to the Colossians speaks to a community tempted by many paths to spiritual fulfilment—moral effort, knowledge, or spiritual experience. None of these are the source of fullness. Only One is our holy of glory: Christ!

Is there any point turning to God in prayer when others seem to get by without doing so? Jesus instructs His disciples to humbly ask, seek God's counsel and go to Him in prayer knowing "Your heavenly Father knows how to give good gifts to those who ask Him"

These verses in the Sermon on the Mount are among the most powerful yet most resented of all moral teachings. Jesus’ message of non-retaliation and active love toward enemies seems unrealistic and impossible in our hate-filled world. But this way of Jesus is how the kingdom of heaven breaks into th…