Happy Easter 2011!

Casey Hobbs asks if love is an emotion, what emotions are good for, and how we can understand what the Bible means when it says that God is love.

It's plausible, but is it right?

Colossians 1:21-22.

Tonight we see Jesus take on The New Age Movement. Nothing really symbolizes this current stream of gnosticism - the same false teaching that Paul was taking on in his letter to the Colossians - like things like The Secret, Eckhart Tolle and Oprah. The problem is that you can not fix yourself. You can not meet your needs. You can not even surrender if he doesn’t allow you. This is all diametrically opposed to Scripture, the written word of God. So let’s take a look...

So what do you need besides Jesus? For peace, well being and happiness in this world, what do we need? What do YOU need? According to this gentleman, Abraham Maslow, you need many things to survive in this world. He ranked these needs in a chart - anyone who took a basic psych class knows this chart - it is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. But Paul counters all of this in Colossians 1. He used the gnostics' favorite word - fullness and modified it with the word all. It’s like “I’ll see your fullness and raise you ALL fullness.”