Colossians and Philemon
Day 1: Introduction - Stability
Lesson 1 – Stability in Christ, an IntroductionRead Colossians 1 - https://www.bible.com/bible/59/col.1.esvMany people point out that the books of Ephesians and Colossians say many of the same things and wonder why both books are in the Bible. But…
Day 2: Setting the Right Foundation - Committed Relationships
Lesson 2 – Setting a Good Foundation – Committed RelationshipsRead Colossians 1 - https://www.bible.com/bible/59/col.1.esvIn this first chapter we find the following things for us to follow for being stable in Jesus Christ:Committed relationships 1-…
Day 3: Setting the Right Foundation - Constant Thanksgiving
Lesson 3 – Setting a Good Foundation – Constant ThanksgivingRead Colossians 1 - https://www.bible.com/bible/59/col.1.esvThe second thing we find in this first chapter to show us how to have a stable life in Jesus Christ, is in verses 3-8 – we are to…
Day 4: Setting the Right Foundation - Ceaseless Prayer, part 1
Lesson 4 – Setting a Good Foundation – Ceaseless Prayer, part 1Read Colossians 1 - https://www.bible.com/bible/59/col.1.esvVerse 9 gives us the next stone in our stable foundation of faith in Jesus Christ – “we have not ceased to pray…”Most who know…
Day 5: Setting the Right Foundation - Ceaseless Prayer, part 2
Lesson 05 – Setting a Good Foundation – Ceaseless Prayer, part 2Read Colossians 1 - https://www.bible.com/bible/59/col.1.esvIn the last lesson we read the first reason why God wants us to pray ceaselessly – so we can be filled with the knowledge of…
Day 6: Setting the Right Foundation - The Creator's Foundation
Lesson 6 – Setting a Good Foundation – Creator’s FoundationRead Colossians 1 - https://www.bible.com/bible/59/col.1.esvIn our verses for this lesson, 15-20, we are given a look at Jesus, the foundation for our stable life. It’s as if we, upon approa…
Day 7: Setting the Right Foundation - Continuing Hope
Lesson 7 – Setting a Good Foundation – Continuing Hope, 21-23Read Colossians 1 - https://www.bible.com/bible/59/col.1.esvSo far in this first chapter of Colossians, we’ve studied how relationships contribute to our faith being stable – first with th…
Day 8: Setting the Right Foundation - Completed Service
Lesson 8 – Setting a Good Foundation – Completed Service, 24-29Read Colossians 1 - https://www.bible.com/bible/59/col.1.esvIn the last lesson we saw how a stable faith produces a hope in us that will not lead us to shame, so now we will see how that…
Day 9: Struggling for the Right Goal, part 1
Lesson 9 – Struggling for the Right Goal, part 1 (2:1-5)Read Colossians 2 - www.bible.com/bible/59/col.2 In the first chapter of Colossians we studied how we become stable in our relationship with Jesus Christ through relationships with others, than…
Day 10: Struggling for the Right Goal, part 2
Lesson 10 – Struggling for the Right Goal, part 2 (2:6-7)Read Colossians 2 - www.bible.com/bible/59/col.2Our 2 verses for this lesson seem so simple, and yet are probably the one greatest example of how we fail in our Christian life every day. And…
Day 11: Struggling for the Right Goal, part 3
Lesson 11 – Struggling for the Right Goal, part 3 (2:8)Read Colossians 2 - www.bible.com/bible/59/col.2Verse 8 is our lesson focus today with a warning for us not to be taken captive by certain things around us that can deceive us and hold us captiv…
Day 12: Struggling for the Right Goal, part 4
Lesson 12 – Struggling for the Right Goal, part 4 (2:9-12)Read Colossians 2 - www.bible.com/bible/59/col.2In the last 2 lessons we’ve seen the negative part of our struggle – the things we should seek to avoid. Now let’s look at the positive side of…
Day 13: Struggling for the Right Goal, part 5
Lesson 13 – Struggling for the Right Goal, part 5 (2:13-15)Read Colossians 2 - www.bible.com/bible/59/col.2Let’s look at the next few verses in chapter 2 to see more of what it means to be “in Christ” as we read in verse 11 in the last lesson.Rememb…
Day 14: Submitting the the Right Authority, part 1
Lesson 14 – Submitting to the Right Authority, part 1 (2:16-17)Read Colossians 2 - www.bible.com/bible/59/col.2In these next two lessons we’ll look at an important thing to remember where our stability as a Christian is concerned – the matter of who…
Day 15: Submitting to the Right Authority, part 2
Lesson 15 – Submitting to the Right Authority, part 2 (2:18-23)Read Colossians 2 - www.bible.com/bible/59/col.2The second instruction about who is our authority is found in verses 18-22. The first warning, in our last lesson, was one of our attitude…
Day 16: Seeking the Right Passion, part 1
Lesson 16 – Seeking the Right Passion, part 1 (3:1-4)Read Colossians 3 - www.bible.com/bible/59/col.3We’ve studied how being stable in our Christian life begins with setting the right foundation, struggling for the right goal, submitting to the righ…
Day 17: Seeking the Right Passion, part 2
Lesson 17 – Seeking the Right Passion, part 2 (3:5-11)Read Colossians 3 - www.bible.com/bible/59/col.3We begin this lesson with a reminder of our status in Jesus Christ as a new creation, as we learned in the last lesson. We have been born into a he…
Day 18: Seeking the Right Passion, part 3
Lesson 18 – Seeking the Right Passion, part 3 (3:12-17)Read Colossians 3 - www.bible.com/bible/59/col.3In the last lesson we saw the things we need to give up to have the right passion in our lives. But since God never just takes things away from us…
Day 19: Sustaining the Right Relationships, part 1
Lesson 19 – Sustaining the Right Relationships, part 1 (3:18-4:1)Read Colossians 3 - www.bible.com/bible/59/col.3In our second lesson of this study we said that setting committed relationships with the right people was part of making a firm foundati…
Day 20: Sustaining the Right Relationships, part 2
Lesson 20 – Sustaining the Right Relationships, part 2 (4:2-6)Read Colossians 4 - www.bible.com/bible/59/col.4.esvWe’ve looked at the right relationships for 3 of the 4 mentioned: husband and wife, parents and children, employers and employees; and…
Day 21: Serving with Accountability, part 1
Lesson 21 – Serving with Accountability, part 1 (4:7-18)Read Colossians 4 - www.bible.com/bible/59/col.4In the remaining verses of this book we look at how we, to be stable in our Christian walk, must hold ourselves accountable to others. This is no…
Day 22: Serving with Accountability, part 2
Lesson 22 – Serving with Accountability, part 2 (4:7-18)Read Colossians 4 - www.bible.com/bible/59/col.4 We continue with our study in how we hold ourselves accountable to others. In the first part of verse 10 we learned how we are accountable throu…
Day 23: Serving with Accountability, part 3
Lesson 23 – Serving with Accountability, part 3 (4:7-18)Read Colossians 4 - www.bible.com/bible/59/col.4 Verses 12 and 13 continue our study of how we serve with accountability in this lesson. How easy it is for many of us to “hide” when we are not…
Day 24: Serving with Accountability, part 4
Lesson 24 – Serving with Accountability, part 4 (Philemon 1:1-25)Read Philemon 1 - www.bible.com/bible/59/phm.1.esv This short letter is included in this study because it was written to a man from the church at Colossae. In this lesson, let’s tell…
Day 25: Serving with Accountability, part 5
Lesson 25 – Serving with Accountability, part 5 (Philemon 1:1-25)Read Philemon 1 - www.bible.com/bible/59/phm.1.esvAs we saw very early in this study of our stability as a believer, the importance of our relationships with Christ and with others, so…
Colossians & Philemon
COLOSSIANS & PHILEMON CHARACTER COUNT Lesson 01 Introduction to Stability 2,616Lesson 02 Setting the Right Foundation – Committed Relationships 2,418Lesson 03 Setting the Right Foundation – Constant Thanksgiving …