Wednesday in the Word with Krisan Marotta

Teacher Libby Taggart speaks on Psalm 98. Part of the series: Psalms For more information: WednesdayintheWord.com Many thanks to Reggie Coates of Heartfelt Music & Ministry for graciously providing instrumental guitar music for our podcasts! Your written iTunes reviews encourage me and they help other people find the podcast. If you have been blessed by this podcast, please write your own review on iTunes, and share this podcast with a friend.

David John Marotta speaks on how to study, interpret and understand the psalms. Part of the series; Psalms For more information: WednesdayintheWord.com Many thanks to Reggie Coates of Heartfelt Music & Ministry for graciously providing instrumental guitar music for our podcasts! Your written iTunes reviews encourage me and they help other people find the podcast. If you have been blessed by this podcast, please write your own review on iTunes, and share this podcast with a friend.

Teacher Libby Taggart speaks on Psalm 30. Part of the series: Psalms For more information: WednesdayintheWord.com Many thanks to Reggie Coates of Heartfelt Music & Ministry for graciously providing instrumental guitar music for our podcasts! Your written iTunes reviews encourage me and they help other people find the podcast. If you have been blessed by this podcast, please write your own review on iTunes, and share this podcast with a friend.

If Scripture is profitable for reproof and correction, then we have to be able to determine what it means such that we have a objective standard by we can decide if one or both of us is wrong. For more information: WednesdayintheWord.com Many thanks to Reggie Coates of Heartfelt Music & Ministry for graciously providing instrumental guitar music for our podcasts! Your written iTunes reviews encourage me and they help other people find the podcast. If you have been blessed by this podcast, please write your own review on iTunes, and share this podcast with a friend.

Paul closes his letter to the Colossian church with encouragement to commit to prayer (vs. 2-4) and walk in wisdom (vs. 5-6) followed by greetings from his co-laborers. Part of the series Colossians: Getting the Gospel Right For more information: WednesdayintheWord.com Many thanks to Reggie Coates of Heartfelt Music & Ministry for graciously providing instrumental guitar music for our podcasts! Your written iTunes reviews encourage me and they help other people find the podcast. If you have been blessed by this podcast, please write your own review on iTunes, and share this podcast with a friend.

Paul applies the gospel to three areas of daily life: 1) marriage, 2) home and 3) work. Since at the time Paul wrote most people worked at home all the people he addresses would have been living under the same roof. Part of the series Colossians: Getting the Gospel Right For more information: WednesdayintheWord.com Many thanks to Reggie Coates of Heartfelt Music & Ministry for graciously providing instrumental guitar music for our podcasts! Your written iTunes reviews encourage me and they help other people find the podcast. If you have been blessed by this podcast, please write your own review on iTunes, and share this podcast with a friend.

How are we to understand these various Scripture verses that encourage us to “be in constant prayer” (Romans 12:12), “pray at all times” (Ephesians 6:18), “pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17), and “continue in prayer” (Col 4:2)? Can we fulfill them by setting an app on our smart phones to remind us to pray 15 minutes of every hour? If not number of minutes, what are the authors asking us to do? It’s easy to approach a verse like Colossians 4:2 with a particular theology of how prayer works and leave with that theology reinforced. Since Paul is not specific about what he’s asking them to do, Bible students fill in the gaps with their own theology. The challenge is let the overall context and theme of this letter inform our understanding of 4:2. Part of the series Colossians: Getting the Gospel Right For more information: WednesdayintheWord.com Many thanks to Reggie Coates of Heartfelt Music & Ministry for graciously providing instrumental guitar music for our podcasts!

In this series of exhortations, Paul explains how belief in the gospel changes how you act in three pairs of relationships: wives/husbands, children/parents and slaves/masters. The overarching theme in this section is to live all our relationships as bond servants of the Lord Jesus Christ, knowing ultimately we serve him. The challenge is to resist the tendency to "win." Instead we are to recognize God has a higher prior claim on our lives and seek to do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ -- in whatever situation we find ourselves. Part of the series Colossians: Getting the Gospel Right For more information: WednesdayintheWord.com Many thanks to Reggie Coates of Heartfelt Music & Ministry for graciously providing instrumental guitar music for our podcasts! Your written iTunes reviews encourage me and they help other people find the podcast. If you have been blessed by this podcast, please write your own review on iTunes, and share this podcast with a friend.

Teacher Libby Taggart speaks on Colossians 3:8-17. Part of the series Colossians: Getting the Gospel Right For more information: WednesdayintheWord.com Many thanks to Reggie Coates of Heartfelt Music & Ministry for graciously providing instrumental guitar music for our podcasts!

Paul has been warning the Colossians that they are in danger of becoming like the Pharisee in the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector (Luke 18). Essentially, he warns: Don't trust in your law-keeping; trust in the blood of Christ and the hope of the gospel. Then you'll see real gospel change. Part of the series Colossians: Getting the Gospel Right For more information: WednesdayintheWord.com Many thanks to Reggie Coates of Heartfelt Music & Ministry for graciously providing instrumental guitar music for our podcasts!

In Colossians 2:16-23, Paul sets faith in Christ in opposition to that set of religious disciplines. Paul argues that faith in Christ is fundamentally incompatible with the rituals for two reasons: 1) religions rituals hold out the promise of being the way to please God but in fact they are not; and 2) Christ is the real solution to the problem of guilt and sin. Part of the series Colossians: Getting the Gospel Right For more information: WednesdayintheWord.com Many thanks to Reggie Coates of Heartfelt Music & Ministry for graciously providing instrumental guitar music for our podcasts!

Paul now turns to the main point of his letter. The rest of the letter is an exhortation to Colossians. They face a very important choice and he's exhorting them to make it the right way. He urges them to hold fast to the gospel they first believed. Part of the series Colossians: Getting the Gospel Right For more information: WednesdayintheWord.com Many thanks to Reggie Coates of Heartfelt Music & Ministry for graciously providing instrumental guitar music for our podcasts!

Paul is laboring to nurture a strong mature faith among his readers. He struggles to make the truth of the gospel crystal clear so that our understanding reaches settled conviction and full assurance such we have the courage to follow Jesus no matter what. Part of the series Colossians: Getting the Gospel Right For more information: WednesdayintheWord.com Many thanks to Reggie Coates of Heartfelt Music & Ministry for graciously providing instrumental guitar music for our podcasts!

In perhaps the most explicit teaching on the Christ in the New Testament, Paul says: 1) all that we can know of God is seen in Jesus because the visible man Jesus reveals the invisible God to us, and 2) Jesus has priority in every way as the Father has given authority over all creation to Jesus. Written to a community in danger of leaving the gospel, Paul emphasizes that Christ and the cross are essential to getting the gospel right. Part of the series Colossians: Getting the Gospel Right For more information: WednesdayintheWord.com Many thanks to Reggie Coates of Heartfelt Music & Ministry for graciously providing instrumental guitar music for our podcasts!

During the Christmas season being too busy becomes an epidemic! Turns out this is not a modern problem. During the time of Jesus, a godly woman named Martha had this same problem. Her story and choices are contrasted with her sister Mary. This Christmas season you can have a Martha Christmas -- where you are too frantic doing good things such that you miss the best gift of all. Or you can have a Mary Christmas -- where you recognize what is truly important and you find the best gift of all. Part of the Christmas Message series. For more information: WednesdayintheWord.com Many thanks to Reggie Coates of Heartfelt Music & Ministry for graciously providing instrumental guitar music for our bumper music!