MBM Rooty Hill / Bible Talks

Colossians offers only two sentences on marriage but they are two crucial sentences - one for the husband, one for the wife. Even though broken marriages are part of living in a broken world, these two verses affirm God’s good gift of marriage.

There’s lots of things in life that can tempt us to think we can be closer to God if only we could do this or experience that - this part of the Bible pours cold water on that and tells us that in Jesus we’re as close to God as we ever need to be.

There’s lots of things in life that can tempt us to think we can be closer to God if only we could do this or experience that - this part of the Bible pours cold water on that and tells us that in Jesus we’re as close to God as we ever need to be.

The theme of Colossians and this passage is  "Don’t move, stay right where you are in Christ. In the face of false teaching that wants to kidnap Christians the answers are giving both in the negative and the positive. Ultimately Christ is enough and each Christian is complete.

The theme of Colossians and this passage is  "Don’t move, stay right where you are in Christ. In the face of false teaching that wants to kidnap Christians the answers are giving both in the negative and the positive. Ultimately Christ is enough and each Christian is complete.

What is it we’re doing in the Christian life? What’s the heart of all we do as a Church? Paul says, we’re speaking the word about Jesus to all people to prepare them to meet Jesus on that last day.