20140216 The object of Jesus’ coming was reconciliation. The initiative in this reconciliation was with God. The New Testament never talks of God being reconciled to the world but always of the world being reconciled to Him. God’s attitude to people was love and it… Read More »Jesus – the reconciler
20140209 The Apostle Paul highlights, in Col. 1:18, Jesus’ supremacy in the Church by using 4 distinguishing facts: “He is the head of the body, the church”. The Church is the Body of Christ, the organism through which He acts and which shares all His… Read More »Jesus is supreme
20140202 Colossians is the letter where the Apostle Paul paints a most glorious portrait of our Lord Jesus Christ. He did this to refute some false teachers in the early Church who taught that all flesh was evil. Hence, if Jesus was fully human, how… Read More »Jesus the creator
20140126 The Apostle Paul in 1 Tim. 2:1 exhorted all Christians: “I urged, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone”. He prayed specially for the Colossian Church. Paul probably has never been to Colossae but he gave an… Read More »praying for others
20140119 To the world, the sign of love among Christians is a unique characteristic that symbolises Christianity. 1 John 4:16 says: “God is love. Whoever lives in love, lives in God, and God in him”. There must be some display of this aspect of love… Read More »Christian love
20140112 God wants to bless all people. From the time of Moses, He gave instructions to Aaron to pronounce His blessings upon the people of Israel. The Aaronic blessing is found in Numbers 6:24-26 – “The Lord bless you and keep you; The Lord make… Read More »God bless you
20140105 Suppose someone presented you with an i-phone claiming it to be the most modern and updated piece of telecommunication equipment you can ever find. Subsequently, he presents Ver. 2, an almost identical model. Wow! Fantastic! You thought you have the ultimate and most complete… Read More »Jesus is my everything
20131229 2013 has taken us through the Pastoral Letters of the Apostle Paul to Timothy and Titus. We have been taught the teachings of Paul with the Theme Verse for 2013: “The things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to… Read More »Security
20131215 The J.B. Phillips NT version best expresses the gist of Titus 3:9 – “but mind you steer clear of stupid arguments, genealogies, controversies and quarrels over the Law. They settle nothing and lead nowhere.” Strife is an age-old issue. Peter and Paul, for instance,… Read More »Dissensions
20131208 Christians have a special status because of what is given to us. We are children of God and have received “the kindness and love of God our Saviour” (Tit. 3:4). God plucked us up from the disgusting dung heap of sin and put us… Read More »Justified By Grace
