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“Don’t forget that you Gentiles used to be outsiders. You were called “uncircumcised heathens” by the Jews, who were proud of their circumcision, even though it affected only their bodies and not their hearts. In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from citizenship among the people of Israel, and you…
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“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.” (Colossians 2:16–17 ESV) Many things will quench the Holy Spirit and grieve the…
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“In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.” (Colossians…
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What a perfect setting for pausing, pressing the brake, and taking everything in. The rest that we so long and sometimes hard to find. The warnings, the stop sign that our souls so long for, which often we are racers breaking the speed limit of our race. Time to stop, refuel. Yesterday I read Psalm…
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“For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.” (Colossians 2:9–10 ESV) I believe that we have come to the very heart of this letter. These two verses are the climax of Paul teaching the churches here in…
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