November 12 | Colossians 3:16-17 “Let Christ’s word dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, with thankfulness, singing in your hearts to God, and everything that you do, if in word or deed, do it all in the name…
November 11 | Colossians 3:8-10 “But now you must take off all of these: anger, wrath, depravity, slander, filthy speech from your mouth. Don’t lie to one another because you took off the old self with its deeds, and put on the new self, renewed in the knowledge according to…
November 10 | Colossians 3:2-4 “Concentrate on the things above, not things on the earth, for you died, and your life has been hidden with Christ in God, when Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.” (Colossians 3:2–4) When I was a…
November 9 | Colossians 2:6-7 “Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in Him, rooted andbuilt up in Him, and established in the faith just as you were taught,abounding in thankfulness.” (Colossians 2:6–7) I’ve watched my parents work so well together over the years. But this doesn’t just…
November 8 | Colossians 1:15-17 “Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all the earth, for by Him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth – things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or powersor rulers or authorities – all things were…
November 7 | Colossians 1:9-11 “For this reason also, we, since the day we heard, haven’t stopped praying and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, to walk worthy of the Lord, in all things pleasing Him, bearing fruit…
We’ve been studying healing for a while, and I want to focus on New Testament healing words. They show the different ways Jesus and the disciples healed people. In my last post, I examined the places in the Gospels and Acts where Jesus healed people immediately and the one place…
Although I’ve talked about when Jesus progressively heals someone before, I wanted to talk about immediate healing and compare it with progressive healing in the Gospels. In my last post, I talked about why Jesus liked to heal on the Sabbath. In this post, I want to take another look…
There are seven fascinating moments in the Gospels where Jesus was like a revolutionary, healing on the Sabbath. This is my best attempt at understanding why He liked doing it. In my last post, I discussed how healing and casting out demons are used side-by-side by the New Testament authors.…
December 31 | Matthew 6:25 “”Therefore, I tell you, don’t be anxious about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t your life more than food, and the body more than clothing?”” (Matthew 6:25) If you’re like me you think about all the…