Colossians 4:4 (New Living Translation) Pray that I will proclaim this message as clearly as I should. The writer asks other Christians to pray for him. He wants clarity in his proclamation of the Gospel message. I echo this prayer. Perhaps some day someone will read some of these little blog posts and take a […]
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Clarity
September 5th, 2015 · No Comments
Tags: Colossians · New Testament
The Perfect Bond
October 5th, 2013 · No Comments
Colossians 3:14 (New English Translation) And to all these virtues add love, which is the perfect bond. Love is the perfect, complete, wholly satisfactory bond. Love glues everything else together. All the good, great, wonderful things I may do as a Christian are just that: a bunch of nice things floating around out there somewhere […]
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Seasoned with Salt to be Attractive
December 30th, 2012 · No Comments
Colossians 4:6 New Living Translation – Let your conversation be gracious and attractive so that you will have the right response for everyone. New International Version – Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. I love this verse. I have taught three-month classes about what this verse […]
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Heart and Mind
December 16th, 2012 · No Comments
Colossians 4:2 (New Living Translation) Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart. Notice how we are to pray: with an alert mind and a thankful heart. Both the heart and the mind are involved. We can’t be all mindful – all analytical. We can’t be all heart – all feeling. […]
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Enemies of God
August 5th, 2012 · No Comments
Colossians 1:21 (New Living Translation) This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions. Note, when I was not a Christian I was an enemy of God. I wasn’t someone who was ignorant or someone who disagreed about a few things […]
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Seasoned with Salt
June 5th, 2011 · No Comments
Leviticus 2:13 (New International Version) Season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings; add salt to all your offerings. I read this verse recently and noticed the striking similarity to one of my favorite verses in the New Testament from […]
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Understanding, Growing, and other “-ing” for God
April 13th, 2008 · No Comments
Colossians 1:3-14 (New International Version) 3We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all the saints— 5the faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for […]
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