Welcome to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it is one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one's about Colossians.

The Book of Colossians is another one of these letters written by the Apostle Paul to a specific

church, in this case, it's the church at Colossae, that's where Colossians are from.

And this is how a lot of the books that make up the middle of the New Testament are.

There are these letters, these epistles.

But this one stands out as being a little bit different because here Paul is writing

to a church that he did not found, and where he doesn't seem to know anybody.

He says one point of contact with this church, and it's this pal of his named Apaphris.

I don't know if I'm saying that right.

E-P-A-P-H-R-A-S. You pronounce that now however it makes sense to you.

We don't know exactly how Paul knows Apaphris.

Maybe they were in prison together, some people think, or maybe Apaphris visited him in prison.

Whatever the case, Paul is in prison as he is writing this letter in Rome.

And he has heard somehow about what's going on half a world away out in Asia Minor, modern

day Turkey, at this little church in Colossae, and it doesn't sound like things are going

very well.

Paul is going to assert himself a little bit as the apostle to the Gentiles here to try

to give some guidance to this church full of people who probably know of him, but don't

know him.

Now Colossae was a pretty significant city for a very, very long time, and it still had

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