1 Hear my cry, O God,listen to my prayer;2 from the end of the earth I call to youwhen my heart is faint.Lead me to the rockthat is higher than I,3 for you have been my refuge,a strong tower against the enemy.4 Let me dwell in your tent forever!Let me take refuge under the shelterContinue reading “Psalm 61: 1-8….How realistic is this?”
Category Archives: Colossians
Psalm 60: 1-12….A psalm which requires historical and geographical Knowledge.
1 O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses;you have been angry; oh, restore us.2 You have made the land to quake; you have torn it open;repair its breaches, for it totters.3 You have made your people see hard things;you have given us wine to drink that made us stagger. – Comment: David commencesContinue reading “Psalm 60: 1-12….A psalm which requires historical and geographical Knowledge.”
Colossians 4: 7-18….Signing off.
Tychicus will tell you all about my activities. He is a beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord. 8 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts, 9 and with him Onesimus, our faithful andContinue reading “Colossians 4: 7-18….Signing off.”
Colossians 4: 2-5….Do this! Building the church!
2 Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. 3 At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— 4 that I may make it clear, which is howContinue reading “Colossians 4: 2-5….Do this! Building the church!”
Colossians 3: 16-4:1….Rules for Christians
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father throughContinue reading “Colossians 3: 16-4:1….Rules for Christians”
Colossians 3: 5-15….Fruit/Character/Clothing!
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, andContinue reading “Colossians 3: 5-15….Fruit/Character/Clothing!”
Colossians 2: 16- 3: 4….Know Your standing! Be Positive!
Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, goingContinue reading “Colossians 2: 16- 3: 4….Know Your standing! Be Positive!”
Colossians 2: 6-15….A packed tight paragraph!
Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. – Comment: The ‘therefores’ of scripture follow after very important stuff and are dependent on that as context. The context has been the supremacyContinue reading “Colossians 2: 6-15….A packed tight paragraph!”
Colossians 1: 24-2: 5….Should I grow up?
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church, of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make theContinue reading “Colossians 1: 24-2: 5….Should I grow up?”
Colossians 1:23b-29….What is a Minister?
Don’t shift from……the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of hisContinue reading “Colossians 1:23b-29….What is a Minister?”
As I read it! 