God told us, "Hey I've got a methodology for your salvation. Are you interested, are you willing, do you want to live? We said "yeah, we want to live" and then he says "okay, then I've got a I've got an ark I've already built for you. Noah had to build his, we don't have to build ours. Do you want to live?
Read MoreIn this short clip, pastor Bob Hallman explains how we find true unity in all areas of our lives through Unity in Christ. How can you have unity?
Read MoreGet Back To Work. We have a calling. I need to get to work. You have a calling; we need to get back to work. I'm not saying we aren't, but I'm just saying it's an encouragement. That's what Paul was doing with this with this gentleman, he was saying you had a calling, you started out so well, but you got derailed somewhere along the way and you became so consumed and so busy with everything else.
Read MoreIf you are going to talk about someone, why not make it "Holy Gossip" and find things that people are doing well and let people know around us. "Wow did you know this guy can do that? Did you know that they bless me?"
Read MoreThe Bible tells us again in 1st Corinthians 6 that we've been bought at a price we are not our own and therefore we belong to Christ, and he goes on to say and because you're not your own you need to offer yourselves in service to God
Read MoreIt's an incredible journey we're on and God is the one that's going to make it happen. So, we can be at rest we can be at peace we can revel in it, we can enjoy it, we can let him do the work and we can even let the difficulties that we face in life, like Paul, instead of becoming a point of deficiency and a point of anger, and upset and offense on our part, it becomes our platform and a witness to believer and unbeliever alike, and a place where we learn how to be comforted by God in the midst of our trouble so that we too in turn can comfort others with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
Read MoreI read the news and everything, I feel powerless, don't you kind of feel a little powerless feel like everything's spinning out of control and it's just like we're just going down this these Rapids and there's a waterfall on the end of it, and it's like we can't get out and we can't stop the water.
Read MoreYOU ARE CHOSEN BY GOD Paul goes on and he says "you were also chosen by God. This word is "Eklektos" and it means "to elect" or to choose which gets us into the really challenging doctrine of election and free will. Now if you know anything about those two doctrines, it promotes a lot of controversy at times especially like in Bible colleges and seminaries. Sometimes even in churches. What I want to do is take just a minute to explain it and then make some comments on it as it relates to this passage.
Read MoreThese are problems and theological issues the church in Colossae was facing and there are issues that we face, as well as most of you, just as I went through these, you already know the answers to these questions but what Paul was presenting to the church in Colossae was not just an understanding, no that's wrong, yes that's right, no that's wrong, no that's not right, what he was presenting was a doctrine and a theology that they could present to other people and explain themselves why these things are either right or wrong and how we can be found in the perfect will of God.
Read MoreWe are now messengers of that message of reconciliation and because of that we are called to be ambassadors of that message. You know there's a real tendency the enemy wants to derail the work that God has planned for you to do
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