How Do I Find Peace?

The deeper the river, the smoother and quieter it is.  The opposite is true too.  The more shallow the river, the more active and louder it can be.  This is what we talk about today. We are walking through the book of Colossians.  This was a letter to the church in Colossae.  The reason Paul wrote this letter was to reestablish Jesus as the center of their lives.  I want to highlight what Paul wrote. 26 The mystery . . . Read More »

The Magnitude of Jesus and Why That’s So Important

Welcome back everyone to our big summer Bible Study on the book of Colossians!  We have been having so much fun walking through this awesome letter from Paul to these young Christians in this small town called Colossae.  You know, there is so much for us to learn from this letter, and we hope that by now, four weeks into this study, that you are able to see the significance of what Paul is doing here with these . . . Read More »

The Key to Finding And Living Out That “Life To The Full” Thing.

Welcome back everyone to our Summer Bible study on Paul’s letter to Colossians.  This is just our third week in the study but I’m thinking that you already are seeing what an awesome letter this is, how powerfully it is written, and how relevant it can be to us today, all these years later in 2021.  As we start processing and personalizing this letter, I think it’s easy to see that Paul and Timothy might as well be . . . Read More »

Ordinariness, That’s Where You Find God

This summer we are jumping into the book of Colossians.  Why?  Because the Bible is one of the primary ways God speaks to us today. David wrote this. How can a young person live a pure life?  By obeying your word. NCV Psalms 119:9 In a world that sends you over 5,000 digital messages a day, how can you hear God’s voice?  How can you even know what God thinks?  The answer is, you can’t.  Unless you are . . . Read More »

Kicking Off Our Study of Colossians

You all probably know by now that I am a big fan of summer.  I like the warm weather, and by February, or March, and some of those late sneaky cold days of Spring I can get a little grumpy and am ready for it to warm up.  There are a lot of reasons that I like summer, but I will tell you around MRC it’s a time I have always looked forward to and enjoyed.  Now that . . . Read More »