In the final greeting to the Colossians, the reader has the rare opportunity to look over the shoulder of Paul (and his fellow workers), to get a vivid picture of what it looks like to deeply love one another as brothers and sisters in Christ. By God’s grace, as...
Children obeying parents; parents encouraging their children. These seem like relatively innocuous instructions for in-home harmony. But what if they are much more? What if they are sign posts that point to the goal of the entire material universe and the purpose of...
Most of us agree that unity is a good thing. But somehow, we find ourselves quite short of what Jesus prays for: that we would be one as He and the Father are one. What stops us from being united as a people, and how can we overcome those things?
