Christ-Centered Living (preaching resource for 4/5/26, Easter Sunday)
This post exegetes Colossians 3:1-11, providing context for the Epistles reading on Easter Sunday, 4/5/26. Insights are drawn from commentary by Warren Wiersbe ("Bible Expository Commentary") and Peter T. O’Brien ("New Bible Commentary"). "Lost and Found" by Greg Olsen (used with permission of artist) Introduction The theology of Paul’s epistles centers fully on Jesus and the creation and outworking of the union that all humanity has with him. Our personal realization of and active participation in that union proceeds in three interrelated steps : 1. Belong . This is the declaration of what is true already of all humanity, namely, that in and through Christ (our Creator, Sustainer and Redeemer), God includes all humanity in his life and love. He has made us all his dearly beloved children. And he has done this for us and to us, apart from any work or merit of our own. It is thus his gift of pure grace. And now the Spirit brings us a choice: to believe o...