Bad hair days and crooked tiaras...ALL righted by God's grace!!

"To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory."  Col 1:27 I want you to know that you are being prayed for as you engage in this study of Colossians.  I hope that as  we go over these passages in detail that you begin to learn how to better study your Bible through careful observation, using scripture to help interpret scripture and spending time in prayer.  Ask the Holy Spirit to help you understand what you are reading. We need His help in understanding what was being said to the people of that day but also how we can apply what we have learned to our life. If we walk away from this study and understand what was being said to the church at Colossae, but not what God wants to say to us, then we have failed.  We will have developed an intellectual knowledge, but not  experienced transformation.  In  Colossians 1:27 God chose to reveal the great r...

 " The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us.  We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth."   John 1:14 As I begin this post, I am completely overwhelmed with the love of God.  The great love that sent His one and only Son into the world to pay a ransom for those who were captive to sin, without hope, without God.  (Eph 12:2) .  I never want to take for granted the price that He paid.  I never want to take for granted the supremacy and sufficiency of Christ.   For all the good things that Paul thanked God for in the church at Colossae, there was a false teaching that had infiltrated the congregation.   This teaching propagated the idea of "Christ and" something else. Instead of emphasizing the sufficiency of "Christ alone" for salvation and spiritual growth, this false teaching suggested that additional elements or practices were necessary for true e...