Scott Patty preaches on Colossians 3:16. Grace Community Church exists to build spiritually healthy people for ministry in the world. One of the ways that we pursue this mission is by gathering each Sunday for corporate worship, prayer, and biblical teaching. The corporate nature of this...
The peace that Christ accomplished for us through his death on the cross is ours through union with him. Now we live with his peace ruling in our hearts to settle us before God and guide the way we relate to one another in the...
We become a new self in Christ by the grace of God through the work of the Holy Spirit. We become like Christ as the Spirit of God gives us the power to put on the characteristics of the new self. Putting on these qualities...
Union with Christ means we have been raised with him from death to life. We are new people, spiritually alive to God while in our mortal bodies. This is the reality for all who are “in Christ.” Now, as new selves, we put on the...
As those who are united to Christ in his death and resurrection, now sharing his life and awaiting his glory, we put to death the sin in us. Putting sin to death is possible because we have died with Christ to sin and have been...
As those who are united to Christ in his death and resurrection, now sharing his life and awaiting his glory, we put to death the sin in us. Putting sin to death is possible because we have died with Christ to sin and have been...
As those who are united to Christ by faith, we share in his death and resurrection. Our lives are hidden with Christ in God. We will share in his glory when he appears. Now, we seek Christ and set our minds on him. The spirit...
By grace through faith we are brought into personal union with Christ, which includes participation in his death to sin, resurrection life, current reign in heaven, and future return in glory. We contribute nothing to Christ’s accomplishments, but we experience them in him. Our union...
The best safeguard against being taken captive to vain philosophy and empty religion is knowing and treasuring Jesus Christ and all that He accomplished for us. Grace Community Church exists to build spiritually healthy people for ministry in the world. One of the ways that we...
We all believe something about life and how we are to live it. What we believe determines how we live. The gospel of Jesus Christ is truth we believe from which we live. In this passage, the Apostle Paul is confronting teachings about life and...
