Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Colossians 4. This chapter began by continuing to describe how being raised with Christ and setting our minds on things above (3:1-2) changes our daily lives. After applying this truth to masters (4:1), the scripture turned to our prayer lives (vv. 2-4) and how […]
Colossians 3
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Colossians 3. In many different ways, Christ calls us to live in the present based on things that are past or future. In the present we have to live in a fallen world and we struggle against the instincts of our fallen nature. But […]
Colossians 2
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Colossians 2. The church at Colossae that received this letter was not started by Paul. Colossians 1:7 plainly states that the people who received this letter from Paul had received the gospel from “… Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of […]
Colossians 1
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Colossians 1 Whenever I read Paul’s descriptions of his prayers, I am struck by how different they are than the way I often pray and the way that I’ve heard most other Christians pray. Frankly, most of our prayer requests and prayers for each […]
Ephesians 6
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Ephesians 6. This chapter began by continuing to specify what it meant to “walk in the way of love “ (5:2a) for children (vv. 1-3), fathers (v. 4), slaves (vv. 5-8), and masters (v. 9). The rest of the chapter encouraged believers to prepare […]
Ephesians 3
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Ephesians 3. Paul described for the Ephesians how he prayed for them in verses 14-19 of this chapter. His prayer was that they would be strengthened spiritually by God’s power (v. 16). Specifically, he wanted them to know Christ by faith (v. 17) and go […]
Ephesians 2
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Ephesians 2. This chapter of scripture lays out clearly and logically what God has done for us in Christ. First, Paul described our need: we were “dead in [y]our transgressions and sins.” We were under God’s wrath by nature (v. 3b) and because we […]
Ephesians 1
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Ephesians 1. At the end of Acts 28, Paul was living in his own rented home and waiting for two years for his trial in Rome. During this house arrest, Paul wrote his “prison epistles”–Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon–so this seems like an appropriate […]
Acts 28
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Acts 28. This is the end of the New Testament’s record of Paul’s ministry. Although it is the end of the record, it seems clear that it was not the end of Paul’s ministry. According to tradition, Paul won his trial in Rome (the […]
Acts 27
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Acts 27. What is there to say about this chapter of scripture? In terms of spiritual growth, however there is very little to be had from reading this chapter, at least on the surface. But think a bit deeper about this. God is sovereign over […]