Colossians is a simple book: Don’t let anything take you away from believing Christ, believing in Christ, in His finished work for you.  Then live, filled with the love of God, against the backdrop of inside and outside sin and miseries, and let God’s love shine through you to everyone else.

Bad habits are hard to break.  We're not the same people that we were when we made them so new habits must replace the old.

Love is the character of God. It defines Him.  God is love.  It is not merely a fuzzy affection but rather a sacrificial action, myself for yourself. Believe in love!

The gospel is  love story. God is loving us in Christ.  Our lives affected by God’s love become love stories too.  This week we look at loves positional characteristic: Love is humble or ’not proud.'

God Helps People in their Misery

A high and lifted up Jesus is the theme of Colossians. We are going to take a long  New Years look at Jesus’ primary character trait, unshakable love.

All false religion and even philosophical non religion is in some manner missing the fullness and enoughness of Jesus.  Jesus is the fulfillment. There is no replacement.

Jesus, whose birth we celebrate this week, is the mystery of God to the people of the world.  He is the person who delivers/saves His people from their sins. For unto us was born, this day, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

God's mystery is Jesus.  Still today, God's mystery is Jesus. If we miss Jesus we miss God, or as the Christmas slogan goes, "Wise men still seek Him."

There is a cause and effect relationship with Jesus, to know Him is to love Him. It makes me love you too. LOVE BUILDS.

How do you lead your family, your church, or your community through tough times.

Life is suffering. Living in a way where God is glorified and you are blessed requires suffering. We are called to it.

We will suffer, but suffering well flips the script, it actually overcomes the evil and makes it good which is what God's purpose is for His people when they suffer anyway.