Brandon Kelley

Colossians 1:21-22 21 Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds expressed in your evil actions. 22 But now he has reconciled you by his physical body through his death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before him— Have you ever lost sight of your past? Have you ever found yourself far removed […]

Colossians 1:19-20 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile everything to himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. Make peace. Peace. It has to be made. It has to be actively […]

Colossians 1:18 18 He is also the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything. Something seems genuinely odd about this verse. Paul’s been taking us higher and higher. Jesus is King. He is the invisible God […]

Colossians 1:16-17 16 For everything was created by him, in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and by him all things hold together. I remember as a teenager laying […]

Colossians 1:15 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. Paul has transitioned from expressing his prayer for the Christians in Colossae to explaining what Christ has done for them (and us – vv. 13-14) to now pressing into who Jesus is. So it is here that we proceed […]