Have you ever found out that people were talking about you behind your back? That others knew about a problem with you before you did? That conversations about your life, your struggles, your failures were happening without you? How did that feel? Most of us have been on the receiving end of gossip at some point. We know the betrayal, the embarrassment, the anger of discovering that people were discussing us rather than talking to us. And we hate it.

This week, we will discover Jesus' radical instructions for how to handle sin between believers—and why our normal way of doing things is the exact opposite of what He commands.

How does God view the believers everyone else overlooks? What does He do when they wander? And what does He expect from us? Jesus answers these questions with a surprising command, a provocative parable, and a declaration of the Father's will that leaves no room for our indifference.

This week, we discover what it looks like to align our hearts with a Father who refuses to write anyone off.

The disciples had just asked Jesus the most revealing question of their journey: "Who is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" In response, Jesus called a child to stand among them and redefined greatness as childlike humility. But He wasn't finished. What happens when those who should model humility instead model pride? What becomes of vulnerable believers who follow the wrong example?

This week,, we will discover how seriously God takes our influence on others—and what radical action He requires when that influence has become corrupted.

The disciples had just witnessed Jesus' transfiguration and heard the Father's voice from heaven, yet their next recorded conversation reveals hearts consumed with a very different concern: who among them would be greatest. Why would men who had seen such glory turn so quickly to questions of rank and position? And why does Jesus respond with such a surprising and counterintuitive object lesson?

This week, we will discover what Jesus taught His disciples about true greatness—and why His answer matters for every believer today.

Paul’s letter to the Colossians was written to counter false teachers who were misleading the church. Their teaching was diminishing Christ's preeminence through adding a mixture of Jewish legalism, Greek philosophy, and early Gnostic ideas. Our verses today are a transition to Paul’s main theme which begins with an incredible word portrait of the preeminence of Christ in verses 15 to 22.

This week, we will discover that the truth of your redemption transforms you.

Do you remember the pure delight you experienced on Christmas morning as a child—the rush to the tree, the colored paper flying, the joy of gifts with your name on them? This kind of delight becomes harder and harder to recapture as we age,, and we wonder if we've simply outgrown it. This Christmas, discover that you haven't outgrown delight—you've just been looking for it in places too small to contain it.

The Colossian believers had received sound doctrine about Christ's supremacy and had begun putting off the old man and putting on the new man. But Paul knew that true transformation required more than behavior modification—it required hearts saturated with Christ's word. Speech flows from identity, and identity is shaped by what dwells within.

This week, we will discover how consecrating our words begins not with trying harder to control our speech, but with letting Christ's word dwell richly within us, realigning our heart's identity.

The Colossian believers had embraced the gospel and experienced new life in Christ, but old patterns of behavior still threatened their witness and spiritual vitality. Paul had just commanded them to set their minds on things above because they had been raised with Christ. Now he addresses the practical implications of that heavenly mindset—what must die in their daily habits and what must come alive. The word "therefore" at the beginning of verse 5 connects their union with Christ directly to the habits they must eliminate and embrace.

This week, we will discover how to consecrate our habits by reckoning ourselves dead to sin's power, laying aside the old man, and putting on the new man in Christ.