Today we started to read Paul’s epistle to the Colossians.  Paul tells them that when Epaphras, “a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf … made known to us your love in the Spirit … we have not ceased to pray for you” [Ch. 1 v.7-9] We particularly noticed what Paul was asking for the believers in Colossae. He prayed, ...

 For the rest of this month our New Testament readings are the letters of Paul.  It was a most remarkable time; the religious thinking of a great number of people was turned upside down in many countries in just a generation or two. We are now reading about the ecclesia at Colossae.  This city is in an area of south western Turkey.   ...