Sermons on Colossians
Communication in the Home
6Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.” Colossians 4:6
Balance in the Home
23Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, 24knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.” Colossians 3:23-24
Follow The Leader: The Honey Do List
Handout 7 Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.” – 1 Peter 3:7
Heaven Help Us
Handout If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.” – Colossians 3:1-4
The Me In Blasphemy
8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self[a] with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.” Colossians 3:8-10
Blurred Vision
Why do we fail to launch? Or, to ask it another way, why do we fail to initiate our God-given mission? One reason might be because we succumbed to spiritual nearsightedness, the inability to focus on that which is distant because your focus is always on that which is closest. This condition can be debilitating as evidenced by the life story of Israel’s first king, Saul. How did Saul suffer from spiritual nearsightedness and why did it prevent him from…