You may not actually be a slave but you might feel like your boss treats you like one. This passage originally directed to slaves and masters has direct application for us today in that most of us are either employees or employers. Col 3:22-4:1 contains principles for all of us and our jobs. For some of us it also contains a change of thinking about the way we think about and the way we do our work. (Colossians 3:22-4:1)

If Jesus Christ is preeminent in our lives, then it will reflect itself in how we love one another in our families. (Colossians 3:18-21)

Your relationship with Jesus Christ is not just one of many relationships. It is the supreme relationship and all other relationships flow from it. Jesus is the source, the secret, the satisfaction, and strength of your life in its every detail. He is your highest priority! (Colossians 3:15-17)

Paul likens our new life as Christians to the clothes we wear. We need to replace our old wardrobe with a whole new set of clothes that match and fit our relationship with Jesus Christ. In these verses, we are given several lists of sins that need to be abandoned as well as a list of virtues that need to cultivated. (Colossians 3:5-14)

In light of our position in Christ and the promise of his coming, we need to be living now in light of eternity. All of our earthly responses should be governed by a heavenly perspective. (Colossians 3:1-4)

In this passage Paul continues to warn against letting anyone come into a fellowship and through either false humility or fancy words add anything to the gospel. Though it may look good from the outside these “add-ons” to the Christian faith detract from the true grace we find only in Jesus Christ. (Colossians 2:16-23)

There is a real danger of being captured by the philosophies portrayed through our mainstream media and not even knowing it. In this passage, Paul exposes philosophy and issues the challenge: Don’t be captured by philosophy because you are complete in Christ. (Colossians 2:8-15)

A healthy church is not a consumer church. Above all else, it’s centered around and focused on Jesus Christ. In this passage, Paul gives five characteristics of a healthy and vibrant church. (Colossians 2:1-7)

After the Apostle Paul wrote on Christ’s preeminence and the message of reconciliation Paul shares a personal note. This is the passage 1:24-29. Paul tells the Colossians that he is motivated to suffer because Christ suffered and it is all a part of the stewardship he has been given by God. The message he works so hard to preach is that when we are reconciled to God, Christ is in us, and as a result, we have hope. In this message we explore the implications of the truth that Christ is in us. (Colossians 1:24-29)

Jesus Christ is the world’s only Savior. No other religion or so-called god can deliver us from the effects and consequences of our sin which has separated us from God. There is only one way to be reconciled to the true God. We must place our total faith and trust in Jesus Christ. (Colossians 1:19-23)