This Sunday is Rally Day! Our Sunday school classes begin; our weekly Bible studies begin; our youth program begins! It’s a good time to start at the beginning! This Sunday we will kick off the school year with a new sermon series called “Faith Confirming Accounts”. Let’s come together and learn with each other the […]
This week we will be wrapping up our summer series “What Not to Wear” by focusing on Colossians 3:14, ” And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.” Paul tells us to “put on” love, but not in a fake or pretend way. Genuine love lived out […]
This Sunday we will move on in the series “What Not to Wear”, based on Colossians 3. “Take off the old self with its practices and put on the new self.” (v. 9-10) In the days of the early church, the gospel of Jesus Christ was revolutionary. Its doors were suddenly opened to the despised […]
This week we will look at Colossians 3:9, “Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices.” In our series “What Not to Wear”, Paul gives us another ragged and shabby garment to cast out of our wardrobe — lying lips. As believers, we are new people […]
This week we will continue in our series from Colossians — What Not To Wear. “But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.” Col. 3:8 Do you remember the old TV commercial for Glad garbage bags? There would be someone lifting a […]
This Sunday we will continue in our series from Colossians 3:1-10 — “What Not to Wear”. Body builders go through extremely rigorous training in order to present themselves as a perfectly toned specimen. It’s a huge commitment to disciplined eating and exercising. Paul challenged Timothy and his church to take the same approach in building […]
Last week we looked at Colossians 3:1-4 and learned WHY it’s important to think heavenly thoughts. This week, the message will be about HOW to keep our minds on things above. The mind is a battlefield and we need help to be victorious. “You will keep perfectly peaceful the one whose mind remains focused on […]
This week we will continue to look at Colossians 3 and consider how to develop character traits that please God and mark us as believers. Compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience are wonderful traits that impact those around us. The question is, how do we get them and grow in these areas? Paul started this […]
This week we will consider the fifth character trait listed in Colossians 3:12 — patience. The only way to grow in the area of patience is to be put in frustrating situations where waiting is required. That doesn’t sound like much fun. The dictionary defines patience as: the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, […]
This week we will continue in our summer series on godly character traits. On Sunday we will learn the importance of gentleness. In Colossians 3:12, Paul lists some characteristics with which we are to “clothe” ourselves. So far we’ve talked about compassion, kindness and humility. Why does gentleness make this list? Some versions of the […]