20140309 Bible commentator Matthew Henry plainly describes dangerous philosophy: “But there is a philosophy which is vain and deceitful, which is prejudicial to religion, and sets up the wisdom of man in competition with the wisdom of God, and while it pleases men’s fancies (it)… Read More »Jesus is Lord – always!
20140302 It is quite unusual for most of us to have love and concern for people we have never met. Yet the Apostle Paul has this fatherly love for the people in Colossae whom he probably has not met. He had for them the personal… Read More »the mystery of God
20140223 The Apostle Paul shared in Colossians 1:24-29 the primary purpose of his Christian ministry. He presents a daring thought about his suffering in ministry as completing the sufferings of Jesus Himself. Jesus died to save His Church, but the Church must grow and be… Read More »Jesus the hope of glory
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
