Neurologically, expressing gratitude releases dopamine and serotonin (hormones that make us feel good/happy). Gratitude has been called the “natural anti-depressant.”...  Read More

Love leads us to forgiveness and brings us together. Forgiveness is an expression of peace ruling in our hearts and a deep sense of gratitude because we realize that we too have been forgiven....  Read More

As we put off old ways of living, we also put off old ways of thinking. We put away these old categories of the world and put on the category of Scripture. Each of us, regardless of race, religion pra...  Read More

This is exactly what Paul is getting at in today’s passage. We had been living in all this filth and dirt (“anger, wrath, malice, slander, obscene talk, lies”), but Jesus cleansed us from all that. ...  Read More

To be at the right hand of God means that you are at the place of the power of God. It is from His right hand that God wields His power. It is a power to uplifts and destroy, to plant and pluck up, to...  Read More

It is so important for us as believers to listen carefully to those who teach us and preach to us. Are they promoting practices that are really “posers” of self-made religion, or are they prompting us...  Read More

They were trying to convince people to hurt their bodies and worship angels and believe in visions in order to qualify themselves for to be loved by God. Paul emphatically says no to this. Jesus has q...  Read More

There is a record of debt that stands against each of us with its legal demand, and we can’t do anything about it. We needed someone to come and pay the debt and free us from the legal demands, and th...  Read More

What is interesting about this passage is that all of the verbs are in the past tense, which indicates that all of this has already been done. In other words, in some sense, though our earthly body br...  Read More

This is why Paul must write to this church: “See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit (save yourself), according to human tradition (follow the Law), according to element...  Read More

All of these indicate that we didn’t bring anything to God; we were empty-handed. That’s the requirement to receive Jesus. Open your empty hands. ...  Read More

Like the Thanksgiving or Christmas feasts, we can keep going back to Christ and find out that STILL THERE’S MORE. We can keep digging into the treasure chest of Jesus, and we will continue to find the...  Read More