by MJR | Oct 21, 2026 | Genuine Hope
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. Colossians...
by MJR | Oct 20, 2026 | Genuine Hope
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Colossians 3:17 Thinking and Speaking Sometimes I wonder if we give much thought to our words and our actions as we live day by day and...
by MJR | Oct 19, 2026 | Genuine Hope
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one...
by MJR | Oct 16, 2026 | Genuine Hope
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must...
by MJR | Oct 15, 2026 | Genuine Hope
Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. Colossians 3:11 In our particular society today, many identify as some kind of hyphenated description. You may be an African-American or an...
by MJR | Oct 14, 2026 | Genuine Hope
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them...