Colossians | Christ Plus Nothing is Required - Season 5, Episode 110
Why do so many believers who hold the riches of Christ still live as if they need something more to be whole? Preaching from Colossians 2:1-15, Pastor Dorrell confronts the "Jesus plus" mindset: the quiet belief that Christ saves us for eternity, but daily life also takes wealth, political ideology, therapeutic self-help, or man-made standards. He shows that all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in Christ and that all the fullness of the Godhead dwells in Him. He also shows that through His finished work our debt is blotted out and every hostile power is disarmed. Listeners are challenged to reject the world's hollow philosophies, to stop going back into bondage, and to walk in Christ with contentment and joy, resting in the truth that they are complete in Him.
Read More
Colossians | The Supremacy of Christ - Season 5, Episode 107
What does it mean to truly let Christ rule every corner of your life, not just your Sunday mornings? Continuing through Colossians, Pastor Dorrell examines Christ's headship over the church and the believer, showing how His preeminence as Creator, Savior, and Sustainer secures our hope even amid a world of shifting truth and uncertainty. He confronts the tendency to compartmentalize faith, reserving Christ for religious activity while withholding Him from finances, relationships, and daily decisions, and explains how Christ's indwelling presence guarantees future glory and steadies believers through suffering. Listeners are challenged to make Christ supreme in every private and communal area of life, not merely acknowledged but genuinely governing.
Read More
Colossians | Christ the Creator - Season 5, Episode 104
Why does it matter whether the universe had a maker? When science, media, and education quietly teach that we exist by cosmic accident, faith can get boxed off as private sentiment rather than objective truth. Pastor Dorrell confronts this modern Gnosticism by anchoring Christ's identity in Colossians 1:15-16, showing that Jesus is the exact image of the invisible God and the sovereign creator by whom and for whom all things exist. From the anthropic principle to the intricacy of DNA, he demonstrates that true science and design always point back to a Creator, never away from one. Believers are challenged to dismantle compartmentalized thinking, reject the myth of personal autonomy, and surrender their time, money, and ambitions to the Lordship of the Christ who made them.
Read More
Colossians | Power in Ceaseless Prayer - Season 5, Episode 101
We instinctively pray for God to change our circumstances, our relationships, our finances, our health—but what if that's not the deepest prayer we could pray? Pastor John examines Paul's intercession for the church at Colosse, showing how the apostle asked not for easier lives but for deeper transformation through these four stages: to know God's will, to walk worthy of it, to endure with patience, and to find joy with thanksgiving. Paul's example reveals that mature faith isn't the absence of hardship but sustained character within it. Let this prayer reshape how you pray for yourself and intercede for others—not simply asking God to fix what's broken around us, but to strengthen who we’re becoming within it.
Read More
Colossians | He Is Enough - Season 5, Episode 98
Why do so many believers quietly assume that Jesus is a good start but not quite enough? Pastor Dorrell opens a new study in Colossians by confronting the most persuasive lies as those that are only partly false, and reveals how the early church at Colossae was being told they needed Christ plus something else, whether works, ritual, or philosophy. Walking through Paul's introduction to the letter, he traces the marks of authentic faith, namely a backward-looking trust in the cross, a present love for others, and a forward-looking hope in Christ's return. The charge is to resist a culture offering countless substitutes and to rest fully in the sufficiency of Jesus alone.
Read More
The Ministry Behind the Ministry - Season 5, Episode 64
What if the most significant contribution you make to ministry this week never requires you to set foot where the ministry happens? Drawing from Paul's closing charge in Colossians 4, Andrew Calabrese confronts the church's tendency to measure ministry by what is visible while overlooking the invisible work that makes it all possible. Using Paul's three-part call to pray persistently, expectantly, and specifically, Pastor Andrew illuminates prayer not as preparation for the greater work, but as the greater work itself. Every believer, regardless of their role, is challenged to still their heart and pray — because behind every visible work of God is an invisible one.
Read More
Bridge Builders | A Foundation of Forgiveness - Episode 52
Forgiveness is required to maintain the bridges that make up relationships. Relationships are an exercise in bridge building, and nothing is more important in maintaining those bridges than forgiveness.
Read More
The Lord Knows - Episode 30
We may feel we labor in insignificance and obscurity, while others do great things. However, God knows our labor, and His expectation for us is simply that we keep the faith, finish our courses, and fight the fight.
Read More
