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My Mother's Favorite Book

Colossians was my mother’s favorite book of the Bible. I don’t know exactly why because I never asked her. But there was something about this book, this letter of Paul, that appealed deeply to my mother’s soul. And she was someone who read the Bible faithfully, every day, for most of her 91 years on planet earth. I suspect it was the supremacy of Christ in this little letter that appealed to my mother more than anything else. It might be said that in this letter, more than any other, Paul presents Christ Jesus as supreme.   Perhaps as we study this book together, Colossians will become your favorite book of the Bible. I don’t know. But I do believe that there is something for everyone in this letter. So, let’s dive in and see what God has for us in Paul’s letter to the church at Colossae. Listen for God’s word to you from Colossians 1:1-2… Paul, an apostle   of Christ Jesus by the will of God,   and Timothy   our brother, To God’s holy people in Colossae, the faithfu...