Colossians 4:5-6 is the type of passage that I might gloss over. Why? It feels as though it is just saying something that I already know. That is, "Talk with people outside of the church, and perhaps make sure that it involves evangelism." Yet if I pause and meditate on some of the phrases, what emerges is a not so simplistic.
Consider that every encounter that we have with someone is an opportunity for it to be meaningless and trivial, or an opportunity for it to be life-changing. That is the thrust of what Paul is writing about here. He is saying that this is a moment when a valuable encounter can happen, one that is filled with power and the potential to make a change in that person's life.
Yet, we tolerate such meaningless encounters over and over. And within the church? We also can tolerate week after week of meaningless encounter. It should not be so.
12 Jul 2026
Gnostics and Judaizers
What would be left of your religion if you stripped away the music, the devotional readings, the Bibles, the buildings, the majestic worship experiences, the preaching, your Christian friends, the children's programs, etc.
Would you be alone in a desert, or would it be a simple time with just you and Jesus?
5 Jul 2026
Hearing Scripture in a World of Woo
Like Jesus' temptation in the desert, Satan is always whispering attractive lies to us, trying to seed us with ideas that could substitute for the truths of God, and cause us to head off in directions that are contrary to God's will. These lying woos sometimes sound plausible, sometimes we don't question them because everyone around us believes them to be true, and sometimes they could even sound holy. But they are lies.
God has given us truth in Scripture. How can we know this truth if we instead spend hours upon hours of time buried in the internet, but never gathering with others to explore and absorb the truths of Scripture? The greatest danger to Christians today is that we study the Internet instead of Scripture.
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