Christ All-Sufficient: Colossians and Philemon Simply Explained (Biblia.com)

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Paul, under house arrest in Rome, wrote two letters which were both sent to Colosse at the same time and by the same messenger, a man named Tychicus. One of the letters we know as the epistle to the Colossians. It is packed with good things. Not a word is wasted. There was a problem in the church at Colosse, and it was this that prompted Paul to write. It seemed that there was a real danger that...

world, and not according to Christ.’ It seems that Epaphras had detected a new mood in the church, a worrying tendency to be influenced by currents of thought from outside, from society at large as it then was. The details may vary, but today’s churches face exactly the same problem. The church is often influenced by the world more than it knows. What had brought matters to a head was that some of the teachers in the church had adopted a number of new emphases. Among other things, they had begun

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