Jul 30, 2023

Scripture Reading: Colossians 1:24-29

Bethel Baptist Church has the pleasure and privilege of hosting Waad Haddad along with his family for worship this Sunday.

Waad is a missionary with BEN Ministries. He serves with the National Theological College and Graduate School (NTCGS) as a professor at the graduate and...

Dec 19, 2021

Scripture Reading: Colossians 1:15-20

It is highly significant that, from the time of Christ, the Holy Spirit inspired passages like today's passage.  This section reveals, in glorious description, the nature of the Son of God.  For two thousand years there have been multiplied false ideas about who Jesus is.

Passages...

Aug 25, 2019

Scripture Reading: Colossians 4:10,14

When we compare the 'greetings' section of Colossians with some other passages in the New Testament, a marked contrast comes to the surface.  Two of the men from whom Paul sends greetings to the church in Colossae are Mark (Col 4:10) and Demas (Col 4:14). Their individual...

Aug 11, 2019

Originally Presented: July 1, 2007

Scripture Reading: Romans 7:14-25

Romans 7:23 refers to the struggle between holiness and sin that Christians experience within as a war.  Galatians 5:17, Colossians 3:5, and 1 Peter 2:11 say much the same thing.  The battle is real and it is unavoidable for Christians.  One question...

Aug 11, 2019

Scripture Reading: Colossians 4:7-18

Shakespeare wrote: "Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel."  Solomon wrote: "Faithful are the wounds of a friend" (Prov 27:6) and "As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another" (Prov 27:17).  Our friends are crucial to...