It is fitting that the conclusion to Colossians emphasizes the need to end well. The Apostle Paul was a fitting model for us all and yet, even he, reminds us we can't do it alone. In the finale to this 12-week series, Pastor Allen introduces us to the Disciple's Dozen: 12 personalities every church member needs to finish well.
King Over Our Jobs
September 6, 2020 • Pastor Allen Coleman
Is Jesus king over every sphere of your life? The workplace is one of the areas where we really find out how compartmentalized or comprehensive our faith is. This week, Pastor Allen invites us to fully examine our orientation to those we work for and places we work at.
King Over Our Children
August 30, 2020 • Pastor Allen Coleman
Children are a blessing from the Lord, but how do we steward this blessing? How do we love them well and prepare them to be men and women who understand and live out the gospel? Scripture guides us in the ways of love, discipline, and the bringing up our children in the way they should go, as families and as a church.
King Over Our Marriage
August 23, 2020 • Pastor Allen Coleman
Marriage is already hard without us making it harder. Yet that's exactly what we do, especially in a time when competing views of gender roles abound. And while this topic seems out-of-touch with the culture, it is not out-of-step with God's design for flourishing and joy. Isn't that what we all want? When Jesus is king over our marriage, husband and wife find freedom from harshness and disrespect and are free to love in ways that image the Gospel itself.
King Over Our Conduct
June 28, 2020 • Pastor Andrew Clark
What does it mean for Jesus to be king over our lives, over the way we conduct ourselves? How does his work for us affect our growth? What role do we play in seeking and growing? This passage reveals to us that God has provided us with glorious position, but we have practices that we pursue. We don’t earn any love or salvation with our efforts, but growing towards Christ requires our humble and active engagement; it is into this work that we are graciously called together as the church.
King Over Our Worship
June 21, 2020 • Pastor Andrew Clark
As created beings, we are all designed to worship - to pour out our affection and our devotion on something or someone. The object of this devotion is of the utmost importance, and affects how we view ourselves, treat others, and live our lives. We are reminded in the book of Colossians of the necessity of keeping our affection for Christ foundational in our considerations of ourselves and others. It is easy to focus too intently on external practices, when our true growth and freedom is found as we link ourselves to Christ, the king of true worship.
King Over Our Freedom
June 14, 2020 • Pastor Andrew Clark
As we receive Christ and his forgiveness, we learn to then walk in him as well, rooted in him and abounding in gratitude. Walking in Christ requires a watchfulness for false freedom that we may avoid it; walking in Christ also mean our adherence the fullness of the freedom purchased for us. It is only in the love and grace of Christ that true freedom and life, for which our souls crave and ache, is truly found.
King Over Our Maturity
June 7, 2020 • Pastor Andrew Clark
In the gospel, God beckons us in Christ into relationship with himself. As we rest in God for our salvation, we lean into him for our further maturation into the image of Christ. Maturity is rooted in the person and work of Christ, is modeled by us and others, and has definitive markers in the life of a believer. May we grow together in maturity, building one another up along the way.
King Over Our Doctrine
May 31, 2020 • Pastor Allen Coleman
This week’s text (Colossians 1:15-23) is the crown jewel of the book of Colossians, perhaps even of the whole new testament or all of Scripture. It is one of the most powerful and rich descriptions of Christ’s person and work. Texts such as these cause us to stop, to pause, and to marvel at the King of kings. May he reign over us in every way, changing us more and more into his image and filling us more and more with his joy.
King Over Our Posture
May 24, 2020 • Pastor Allen Coleman
If we are all honest with ourselves, we often hold others to standards that we ourselves don’t even meet. We aren’t as far along in our growth as we often think we are, and this in turn affects how we view and treat others. Colossians reminds us that our posture must be marked by patience. We need to thank God as others progress, ask God that others would exceed expectations and limitations, and trust God with their process. In order to see ourselves and others rightly, without unhealthy comparison, we need to first see Jesus rightly, and then our posture towards others will be properly founded.
Introduction To Colossians
May 17, 2020 • Pastor Allen Coleman
Colossians reveals to us some of the truest realities of each of our lives: we all have struggles to overcome, we all face villains that need proper opposition, and we all need a hero to cling to. Jesus is the true hero, the one who brings joy when he is properly seated on the throne in each of our lives. God desires our whole heart; may we surrender fully to the only King who is worthy of worship and praise.
