In today's text, Paul is calling on believers to a life of wholehearted devotion and obedience to Jesus Christ. He is not content with a half-hearted effort. Whether it’s from the mundane to the significant, whatever we do, we do it in the name of the Lord Jesus, living with a Jesus-centered...

In order to put on our new self in Christ, first we must take off the old.

Friends, we need to keep in front of us Paul’s central thought in this letter, the sufficiency and supremacy of Christ in our lives. Just as the Christians in Colossae were urged to walk in Jesus, deeply rooted and established in Him, so too we are called to live out our faith in a way that...