Biblical Studies: Colossians
Overview
In this collection, Sam Storms draws upon 38 years of experience as a professor, a pastor, and an author to provide accessible and insightful commentaries, as well as general Bible reading tips. For every book of the Bible covered here, he includes detailed introductions, personal commentaries, and suggestions for further reading; for Psalms, Corinthians, and Revelations, he also includes guides for daily devotions and meditations. Through this series of hundreds of articles, Storms helps readers get more out of the Bible by giving interpretive clues and discussing controversial issues such as divorce and remarriage, infant deaths, the power of demons, and more. This volume contains a discussion of key themes, as well as commentaries on specific verses in Colossians.
Top Highlights
“In other words, to know God’s will is not only a matter of understanding what is pleasing to him but also consists of experiential wisdom in knowing how to apply God’s desires to the concrete realities and crises and decisions of every day life.” (Colossians 1:9b)
“Paul’s point isn’t that Jesus ‘looks like’ the Father, as if to suggest the Father has a physical frame and visage which the Son reflects. The Son ‘images’ the Father in terms of moral character, will, and the attributes of deity. They, together with the Holy Spirit, share a common divine nature, glory, and purpose.” (Colossians 1:15)
“Most likely ‘the word of Christ’ is identical to what Paul wrote in Colossians 1:5 where he spoke of ‘the word of the truth, the gospel.’ The ‘word of Christ’, therefore, is the totality of biblical revelation concerning Jesus: who he is, his mission, his life, his redemptive work, his character and will and ways.” (Colossians 3:16)
“The point, then, is that Jesus Christ is utterly unique, distinguished from all of creation because he is both eternally prior to it and supreme over it in the sense, as v. 16 makes clear, that he is its creator.” (Colossians 1:15)
“First, there is an element of security in knowing this. The security is in the realization that my life cannot extend beyond God’s grace or capacity to redeem all things for his glory and my good.” (Colossians 1:1a)
- Title: Colossians
- Author: Sam Storms
- Series: Biblical Studies
- Publisher: Sam Storms
- Print Publication Date: 2016
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. N.T. Colossians › Commentaries
- Resource ID: LLS:BIBLICALSTUDIES72COL
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T17:15:46Z
Sam Storms earned a ThM in historical theology from Dallas Theological Seminary and a PhD in intellectual history from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the founder of Enjoying God Ministries, senior pastor of Bridgeway Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and a former visiting professor of theology at Wheaton College. He has authored over two dozen books and served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society.