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...
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...
Scott Patty preaches on Colossians 1:24-2:5. 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...
Scott Patty preaches on Colossians 1:24-29. 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...
Our past, present, and future as Christians are represented in this passage, and reconciliation to God is the gift of grace that makes our lives complete in Christ. Once we were alienated from God, but now we are reconciled to him. As those who are...
In the beloved Son of God we have redemption, the forgiveness of our sins. Now we hear who this Son is. This passage shows us how Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is preeminent over creation and the church. May the vision of Christ put...
A regular theme in the New Testament is gratitude for God’s grace to us in Christ. Paul expresses this gratitude in his prayer in Colossians. This passage gives us a deep and wide understanding of the grace of God that will expand our prayers and...
The prayers of the Bible are always relevant and we should always be praying them. In this one, we see that the knowledge of God’s will is for the purpose of living for God’s pleasure. Pleasing God is bearing fruit in good works, enduring by...
Paul gives thanks for the evidence of the gospel’s grace and power among these believers. Faith in Christ and love for each other, rooted in the hope laid up in heaven, are the new and increasing qualities of these Christians and their congregation. This is...
Modern greetings have become casual to the point of carrying little meaning and adding almost no value to our conversations and correspondence. But when Paul opened his letter to the Colossians, he made bold claims about Christ that called his readers to believe. Today, we...
