A Meek and Quiet Spirit Colossians 3:12
Like Our Lord: Submissive to His Father’s Will What Christians Look Like Thankfully the Lord tells us plainly what his children look...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
Sep 3011 min read
Kind and Lowly Christians Colossians 3:12
The Spirit’s Character Sketches of God’s Children It is said that we need more assertive Christians, Christians who refuse to be pushed...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
Sep 3011 min read
New Life in Christ: Tender Mercy Colossians 3:12
Lists of the Holy Spirit’s graces are found in several places in the New Testament – as are lists of the sins of the old man that we are...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
Sep 3011 min read
Elect, Holy and Beloved Colossians 3:12
God’s Command that We Be Clothed with Godliness (v. 12) God’s command confronts our fleshly willfulness. When it comes to Christian...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
Sep 3012 min read
Christ All and In All Colossians 3:10-11
When we come to a passage as glorious as this, we should, first, repent of all hopelessness about our times and about the lost around us....
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Rev. Chris Strevel
Sep 308 min read
The New Man in Christ Colossians 3:6-10
The Old Man Killed and Stripped Away (vv. 6-9) By Dying and Rising with Christ The Son of God is living and powerful. When his gospel...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
Sep 3011 min read
Our Glory and Our Power in Jesus Christ Colossians 3:4-6
Our Glory Bound to Christ’s (v. 4) Our Glory Hidden until He Appears These lines open the portion of this letter that set forth our...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
Sep 3013 min read
Christ Our Life; When Christ Our Life Appears Colossians 3:3-4
Christ the One We Seek and Esteem above All (v. 3) Died with Him: Crucified to Sin, World, Self Dead with Christ and alive with him –...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
Sep 3011 min read
Raised with Christ, Now Seek Him Colossians 3:1-2
We Are in a Living Union with Him (v. 1) Raised with Him from Sin’s Death Union with Christ in his resurrection is the foundation of all...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
Sep 3013 min read
Christ’s Church Must Be Tenaciously Christ-Centered Colossians 2:20-23
Dead with Christ to Serve with Liberty (vv. 20-22) From the Power of Sin (vv. 11-12) Accept no substitutes or additions to the fullness...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
Sep 3010 min read
Hold Fast to Jesus Christ Colossians 2:16-19
Let No Man Judge You (vv. 16-17) Clean in Christ and Brought Near by Him Even in the days of the apostles, the gospel of Jesus Christ...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
Sep 3013 min read
The Circumcision of Jesus Christ Colossians 2:11-15
Jesus Christ Circumcises Believers (vv. 11-12) In the life of every child of God, our completeness in Christ will become the most...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
Sep 3014 min read
Complete in Christ Colossians 2:10
We Are Complete Because of Who Jesus Christ Is All Fullness in Him as Incarnate Mediator To be complete means that nothing is lacking. A...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
Sep 3012 min read
We Need Nothing but Jesus Christ Colossians 2:8-10
Beware of Plunderers (v. 8) Christians Can Be Plundered by Vain Philosophies “Plundered” describes what happens when we do not hold fast...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
Sep 3013 min read
Walk in Jesus Christ the Lord Colossians 2:6-7
As You Received Him as Lord Recognition of His Divine Person and Authority To say that Jesus Christ is Lord is to confess that he is the...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
Sep 3010 min read
Faith’s Great Conflict Colossians 2:1-5
Only believers can understand the great conflict Paul here confesses. On the one hand, we have Christ in us, the hope of glory. His...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
Sep 3010 min read
The Way God Makes Christ Known Colossians 1:28-29
Through the Preaching of His Word Preaching Christ By far the most important thing happening in the world at this moment is the Father’s...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
Sep 3013 min read
Christ in You, the Hope of Glory Colossians 1:24-29
Christ’s Sufferings and Joys Abound in Us (v. 24) One with Us in Afflictions for His Sake (Acts 9:4) On the Damascus Road, Paul...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
Sep 3010 min read
Reconciled to God by Jesus Christ Colossians 1:21-23
Our Sins Estranged Us from God (v. 21) A Broken Relationship with God Ruins Your Life “Alienation” means to be a stranger to something...
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Rev. Chris Strevel
Sep 3011 min read
The Surpassing Glory of Jesus Christ Colossians 1:15-20
Who is our Redeemer? He is the Son of God, the firstborn of creation and of the dead. He is the eternal God; he is the incarnate Head....
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