Welcome to a year in the Bible with daily grace. The Bible tells one big story of

redemption and we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to finish, and exploring how all of it

points to Jesus. Hey friends and welcome back to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

My name is Shelby Turner.

I'm one of your hosts for this podcast,

and today we are going to cover the entire book of Colossians.

If you haven't yet, go check out my intro video

for this book on our Daily Grace Podcast

Instagram account.

There I'll share some important background information that will help you put this book in

the correct context.

And while you're there, you're also going to see some posts about our other

podcast which covers many different relevant topics from a biblical

perspective. I'd love for you to check that one out too. Okay but let's talk

about Colossians. Colosians was written by Paul to a small

church in the city of Colossay. To learn how this church got started go check out that

intro video I mentioned but one of the church leaders, Epipris, has traveled to Rome

where Paul was under house arrest, and he told Paul that the church was being

infiltrated with some dangerous false teachings. Paul wrote this letter to clear

up any confusion and point people back to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is a short

but powerful letter. Let's talk about each of its four chapters and what Paul

was communicating in it. Chapter 1 begins with Paul's greeting to the church as well as

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