Obedience Confirms Our Resurrection: Colossians 3:1–4, Part 1
Christ calls his disciples to be doers of the word, not hearers only. How does our union with Christ relate to obeying his commands?
Aug 29, 2023
Look at the Book
Look at the Book is John Piper's ongoing series of 8-12 minute videos to help you learn to read the Bible for yourself.
Episodes
Self-Made Religion Is Useless: Colossians 2:20–23
Christians have died to man-made worship and any religious effort that would try to commend them to God apart from Christ.
Aug 27, 2023
Why We Do Not Worship Angels: Colossians 2:18–19
God has provided one Mediator between God and man, and he is far greater than any heavenly or fallen angel.
Aug 25, 2023
Shadows of Christ, the Substance: Colossians 2:16–17
If Christianity is rooted in the Old Testament, why are Christians not keeping so much of what God commanded there?
Aug 22, 2023
How Did the Cross Defeat Satan? Colossians 2:13–15, Part 5
Through his crucifixion, Christ silenced the accuser, nullified the terror of death, and delivered sinners from the dominion of sin.
Aug 20, 2023
Can the Innocent Die for the Guilty? Colossians 2:13–15, Part 4
Does it satisfy the standards of God’s justice for an innocent one to die for the guilty?
Aug 18, 2023
The Gospel: Salvation by Substitution: Colossians 2:13–15, Part 3
God obliterates our record of debt by nailing it to the cross through the substitutionary death of Christ.
Aug 15, 2023
How Did God Make Us Alive? Colossians 2:13–15, Part 2
The plights of our sinful state — deadness, blindness, hardness, and inability — were all resolved decisively in the moment God made us alive.
Aug 13, 2023
How Dead Are We Before Christ? Colossians 2:13–15, Part 1
Death before life is the testimony of all who really live. Do you know how bleak things were before God brought you to life?
Aug 11, 2023
The Glorious Reality Baptism Reveals: Colossians 2:11–12, Part 3
Our union with Christ in his death and resurrection should tangibly, observably define how we live in this world.
Aug 08, 2023
What Is a Circumcision Without Hands? Colossians 2:11–12, Part 2
What is the body of the flesh, and how do you put it off? What exactly is cut away in this “circumcision of Christ”?
Aug 06, 2023
The Sign of Circumcision and Baptism: Colossians 2:11–12, Part 1
Christians have received a circumcision that is “made without hands.” What is this circumcision, and what does it do?
Aug 04, 2023
Filled with the Head of All Authorities: Colossians 2:6–10, Part 4
To be filled in Christ is to possess the riches of his inexhaustible love, unsearchable wisdom, and unrivaled rule.
Aug 01, 2023
All Deity in Christ Bodily Now: Colossians 2:6–10, Part 3
The incarnation of the Son of God reveals any denigrating of the human body as a man-made, deceitful philosophy.
Jul 30, 2023
What Is Wrong with Philosophy? Colossians 2:6–10, Part 2
Christ is the treasure chest of wisdom and knowledge. Any philosophy that would exclude him excludes Wisdom himself.
Jul 28, 2023
The Divine Tradition of Walking in Christ: Colossians 2:6–10, Part 1
Faith rooted in Christ, built on him as its firm foundation, will not be blown about by every new gust of doctrine.
Jul 25, 2023
Spiritual Antibodies Against Delusion: Colossians 2:4–5
Many people are deceived by false teaching and lost while believing that they know the truth. How do we resist such deceptions?
Jul 23, 2023
Love, Unity, and Assurance in the Truth: Colossians 2:1–3, Part 2
Communities bound together in love will better know the great riches of Christ than communities divided by rivalry.
Jul 21, 2023
What Was Worth So Much Struggle? Colossians 2:1–3, Part 1
God gives good gifts to his church when he gives her good men to serve as pastors. The work is challenging, but worth every sacrifice.
Jul 18, 2023
How to Struggle in the Strength of Christ: Colossians 1:28–29, Part 2
When we put our hands to the plow of our Christian lives, we cannot leave prayer behind. God gives the strength we need; he must work within us.
Jul 16, 2023
Who Presents Believers Mature in Christ? Colossians 1:28–29, Part 1
Our growth in Christ can seem so slow and the road so long, but we can take comfort knowing that God himself is maturing us.
Jul 14, 2023
The Wealth of the Glory of Mystery: Colossians 1:24–27, Part 4
The welcoming of the nations into the unspeakable hope of the glory of God is the mystery revealed to the elect in the gospel of Christ.
Jul 11, 2023
What Is Lacking in Christ’s Afflictions? Colossians 1:24–27, Part 3
What is lacking in Christ’s afflictions? The personal, bodily, costly presentation of his love to the elect through missionaries.
Jul 09, 2023
The Amazing Apostolic Heart of Love: Colossians 1:24–27, Part 2
Paul understood his sufferings for the gospel as an essential means to bring about the salvation of the elect.
Jul 07, 2023
Six Reasons to Rejoice in Suffering: Colossians 1:24–27, Part 1
The New Testament provides at least six reasons for why Christians embrace the trials they undergo with joy.
Jul 04, 2023
Global Response, Personal Apostle: Colossians 1:21–23, Part 4
God is no tribal deity. He will see to it that his gospel reaches every tribe, people, language, and nation under heaven.
Jul 02, 2023
Conditional Reconciliation and Eternal Security: Colossians 1:21–23, Part 3
God uses the warning passages of Scripture to stimulate us to fight for faith. And he uses that fight to keep us safe until the end.
Jun 30, 2023
Reconciliation Accomplished and Applied: Colossians 1:21–23, Part 2
God achieves reconciliation at the cross and applies it to us through faith, and he does it all to bring the elect to himself.
Jun 27, 2023
Our Minds Were Hostile to God: Colossians 1:21–23, Part 1
Alienated. Enemies. Evil. We won’t revel as we ought in the reconciling work of Christ unless we know who we were without him.
Jun 25, 2023
Reconciliation of All Things by Blood: Colossians 1:19–20, Part 2
When God finishes his reconciling work, there will be nothing left unreconciled to him.
Jun 23, 2023