What does it actually look like to live as someone who has been made new?

In Colossians 3, Paul gives us a picture of the transformed Christian life by telling us to “put on” a new way of living. Like adding layers as the seasons change, we are called to clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, then hold it all together with love.

But this isn't about simply trying harder to become a better person. These qualities flow from knowing who we already are in Christ. We are chosen. We are dearly loved. That identity becomes the foundation for genuine humility, and from that humility, the other layers of Christlike character begin to take shape.

Paul also challenges the divisions we use to separate ourselves from others. Race, religion, culture, social status, and other differences lose their power when we recognize that our identity is ultimately found in Christ.

The message is both simple and challenging: if we have been raised to new life in Christ, we ought to live like it.

Join us as we explore what it means to put on the character of Christ and allow the reality of who we are in Him to shape the way we live, love, and treat the people around us.

📖 Scripture: Colossians 3: 12- 17

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My face gets there before my mouth does. It gives away what I'm thinking before I've decided whether it's worth saying. In this episode, I sit with Colossians 3:8-10 and an ordinary morning with my daughter Lydia to ask a harder question than how do I stop making that face. The real question is what's happening in my heart when things don't go according to plan.

This continues our walk through Pastor Isaac's series in Colossians 3, exploring the difference between managing a reaction and letting Christ actually transform it, and what the old Wesleyan idea of a temper has to do with either one.

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What does it really mean to live as someone who has been raised with Christ?

In this episode, we continue through Colossians 3 and explore Paul's powerful picture of the Christian life as death and resurrection. Paul isn't simply telling us to try harder or become better people. He is reminding us that something has already changed. In Christ, our old life has died, and we have been raised to a new life.

So what do we do with the things that still pull us back toward the old way of living? Paul challenges us to put away the attitudes and behaviors that belong to our former life, not because we are trying to earn God's love, but because they no longer fit who we are in Christ.

Using the picture of a horse moving out of balance, this conversation explores what it means to recognize when our lives are getting out of step with God and allow Him to bring us back into alignment.

This isn't a message about guilt or perfection. It's an invitation to live from our new identity in Christ. If we have been raised with Him, then we don't have to keep living like we're still dead.

Scripture: Colossians 3: 5- 11

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