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Husbands, Love Your Wives! Colossians 3:18–21, Part 5
3 november 2023
What does it mean for a husband to become embittered toward his wife? How can we overcome such bitterness?
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What Is Submission ‘In the Lord’? Colossians 3:18–21, Part 4
31 oktober 2023
Wives who trust the Lord are fearless. How does this confidence in Christ affect how they relate to their earthly husbands?
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The Design of Creation for Man and Woman: Colossians 3:18–21, Part 3
29 oktober 2023
God saw his created order for marriage as good. What order did he intend, and why do godly women joyfully submit to their husbands?
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A Wife’s Submission Is Fitting: Colossians 3:18–21, Part 2
27 oktober 2023
Why should Christian wives submit to their husbands? What does it mean for a wife to submit to her husband “as is fitting in the Lord”?
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Citizens of Heaven Still Have Earthly Families: Colossians 3:18–21, Part 1
24 oktober 2023
We do not belong to this world, nor to the things of this world. How then shall we live out our time in this world?
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Do Everything in the Name of King Jesus: Colossians 3:15–17, Part 4
22 oktober 2023
How we speak and act reflects something about our King. What tangible effect has that had on your Christian life?
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Songs Rich with the Word of Christ: Colossians 3:15–17, Part 3
20 oktober 2023
Does it really matter if we sing in the Christian life or not? Could we really be spiritually stunted if we refuse to greet one another with songs?
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How Does the Peace of Christ Rule? Colossians 3:15–17, Part 2
17 oktober 2023
Everyone lives by a rule. How can the “peace of Christ” rule in our hearts, homes, and communities?
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Is Christian Peace in My Heart or in the Church? Colossians 3:15–17, Part 1
15 oktober 2023
Panic often prevents peace. In a world lacking calmness, what does it mean to be called to the peace of Christ?
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How Does Love Bind Everything Together? Colossians 3:12–14, Part 4
13 oktober 2023
God calls us to marvel at Christ’s love which forgives and renews us. How does this fascination functionally change how we live?
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The Perplexities of Forgiving and Forbearing: Colossians 3:12–14, Part 3
10 oktober 2023
The bite of others’ sin hurts more when repentance never comes. How do Christians become long-suffering in relationships?
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Put on Bowels of Mercy: Colossians 3:12–14, Part 2
8 oktober 2023
You need biblical bowels. What on earth are those, and how does a Christian embrace this unusual command?
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Christian, You Are Chosen, Holy, Loved: Colossians 3:12–14, Part 1
6 oktober 2023
What difference does it make in our actual lives as Christians to know ourselves as chosen, holy, and loved by God?
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The End of Ethnic Strife in the Church: Colossians 3:11
3 oktober 2023
The alternative to ethnic strife that divides the world is a Christ-centered, Christ-empowered love that unites his people.
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Develop a Radical Love for Truth: Colossians 3:5–10, Part 7
1 oktober 2023
If we functionally replace God from the center of our lives with some other god, we cannot be people of the truth.
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The Cravings Behind Our Anger: Colossians 3:5–10, Part 6
29 september 2023
Anger boils when our cravings are denied. The new man in Christ must put away all unrighteous anger and replace it with grateful joy.
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Why Warn Saints About Wrath? Colossians 3:5–10, Part 5
26 september 2023
If Christians are safe from God’s wrath, why does God warn them about it?
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How to Put Sexual Immorality to Death: Colossians 3:5–10, Part 4
24 september 2023
How do we gain victory over a sin that continually tempts us with the promise of pleasure?
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What Is Sexual Immorality? Colossians 3:5–10, Part 3
22 september 2023
How do we know what a biblical author means when he uses words that we almost never use?
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Where Is the Spirit in Colossians? Colossians 3:5–10, Part 2
19 september 2023
Paul seems extremely shy to mention the Spirit in Colossians. He does so explicitly only once. Why might that be?
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Kill What’s Killed, Renew What’s New: Colossians 3:5–10, Part 1
17 september 2023
When sinfulness remains and newness of life delays, how should Christians make sense of it all?
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Relentlessly Seek Reality Above: Colossians 3:1–4, Part 8
15 september 2023
Nothing on earth can compete with the worth of Christ, so we are called to seek him with all our hearts and minds.
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Christ Is Coming in Glory: Colossians 3:1–4, Part 7
12 september 2023
Grace upon grace, resurrection from the dead, transformation into unimaginable glory, and the unceasing company of our Lord — can you imagine?
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Your Life Is Hidden with Christ in God: Colossians 3:1–4, Part 6
10 september 2023
One day we will all shine like the sun. What will our now-hidden lives look like on that day?
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Christ Is Your Life: Colossians 3:1–4, Part 5
8 september 2023
Christ is our life now, but how do we experience that life? Scripture illuminates how this life flows to Christians through faith.
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Seated at the Right Hand of God: Colossians 3:1–4, Part 4
5 september 2023
Why is it significant that Jesus sits at the right hand of God? Exult in the current physical location of Christ.
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Christian, You Have Been Raised! Colossians 3:1–4, Part 3
3 september 2023
Satan entices us to believe that our sin defines us. How does unity with Christ forever change the way we battle that lie?
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Christian, You Are Dead! Colossians 3:1–4, Part 2
1 september 2023
Death precedes true life. Christ exemplifies this, and we follow in his footsteps. How should this change how we live?
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Obedience Confirms Our Resurrection: Colossians 3:1–4, Part 1
29 augustus 2023
Christ calls his disciples to be doers of the word, not hearers only. How does our union with Christ relate to obeying his commands?
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Self-Made Religion Is Useless: Colossians 2:20–23
27 augustus 2023
Christians have died to man-made worship and any religious effort that would try to commend them to God apart from Christ.
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Why We Do Not Worship Angels: Colossians 2:18–19
25 augustus 2023
God has provided one Mediator between God and man, and he is far greater than any heavenly or fallen angel.
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Shadows of Christ, the Substance: Colossians 2:16–17
22 augustus 2023
If Christianity is rooted in the Old Testament, why are Christians not keeping so much of what God commanded there?
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How Did the Cross Defeat Satan? Colossians 2:13–15, Part 5
20 augustus 2023
Through his crucifixion, Christ silenced the accuser, nullified the terror of death, and delivered sinners from the dominion of sin.
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Can the Innocent Die for the Guilty? Colossians 2:13–15, Part 4
18 augustus 2023
Does it satisfy the standards of God’s justice for an innocent one to die for the guilty?
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The Gospel: Salvation by Substitution: Colossians 2:13–15, Part 3
15 augustus 2023
God obliterates our record of debt by nailing it to the cross through the substitutionary death of Christ.
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How Did God Make Us Alive? Colossians 2:13–15, Part 2
13 augustus 2023
The plights of our sinful state — deadness, blindness, hardness, and inability — were all resolved decisively in the moment God made us alive.
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How Dead Are We Before Christ? Colossians 2:13–15, Part 1
11 augustus 2023
Death before life is the testimony of all who really live. Do you know how bleak things were before God brought you to life?
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The Glorious Reality Baptism Reveals: Colossians 2:11–12, Part 3
8 augustus 2023
Our union with Christ in his death and resurrection should tangibly, observably define how we live in this world.
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What Is a Circumcision Without Hands? Colossians 2:11–12, Part 2
6 augustus 2023
What is the body of the flesh, and how do you put it off? What exactly is cut away in this “circumcision of Christ”?
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The Sign of Circumcision and Baptism: Colossians 2:11–12, Part 1
4 augustus 2023
Christians have received a circumcision that is “made without hands.” What is this circumcision, and what does it do?
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Filled with the Head of All Authorities: Colossians 2:6–10, Part 4
1 augustus 2023
To be filled in Christ is to possess the riches of his inexhaustible love, unsearchable wisdom, and unrivaled rule.
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All Deity in Christ Bodily Now: Colossians 2:6–10, Part 3
30 juli 2023
The incarnation of the Son of God reveals any denigrating of the human body as a man-made, deceitful philosophy.
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What Is Wrong with Philosophy? Colossians 2:6–10, Part 2
28 juli 2023
Christ is the treasure chest of wisdom and knowledge. Any philosophy that would exclude him excludes Wisdom himself.
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The Divine Tradition of Walking in Christ: Colossians 2:6–10, Part 1
25 juli 2023
Faith rooted in Christ, built on him as its firm foundation, will not be blown about by every new gust of doctrine.
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Spiritual Antibodies Against Delusion: Colossians 2:4–5
23 juli 2023
Many people are deceived by false teaching and lost while believing that they know the truth. How do we resist such deceptions?
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Love, Unity, and Assurance in the Truth: Colossians 2:1–3, Part 2
21 juli 2023
Communities bound together in love will better know the great riches of Christ than communities divided by rivalry.
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What Was Worth So Much Struggle? Colossians 2:1–3, Part 1
18 juli 2023
God gives good gifts to his church when he gives her good men to serve as pastors. The work is challenging, but worth every sacrifice.
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How to Struggle in the Strength of Christ: Colossians 1:28–29, Part 2
16 juli 2023
When we put our hands to the plow of our Christian lives, we cannot leave prayer behind. God gives the strength we need; he must work within us.
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Who Presents Believers Mature in Christ? Colossians 1:28–29, Part 1
14 juli 2023
Our growth in Christ can seem so slow and the road so long, but we can take comfort knowing that God himself is maturing us.
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The Wealth of the Glory of Mystery: Colossians 1:24–27, Part 4
11 juli 2023
The welcoming of the nations into the unspeakable hope of the glory of God is the mystery revealed to the elect in the gospel of Christ.