Theme: Having been set free through Christ, we must never again allow ourselves to be wrapped up in the chains of spiritual bondage.

Theme: Having been set free through Christ, we must never again allow ourselves to be wrapped up in the chains of spiritual bondage.

Theme: The kind of life we live is to be forever changed by the fact of our having raised with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Theme: God gives us, in these two verses, our "mission statement" as a church and as individual believers.

Theme: What Paul sought to protect in the church at Colossae teaches us what we should seek to protect in our own church family.