Colossians 2:19 – Three Minute Bible

January 13, 2025January 13, 2025

Colossians 2:19b – In Search of a Body

A crowd of people in the style of a stained glass window. Each person is depicted with an aura around their head.

… from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.

Summary: The body Paul describes can seem elusive in a world marked by divisions in the church. Exploring the concept in more detail leads us to a place of hope and introspection.

Paul raises a very interesting question in this passage: Does the body grow from the head?

It seems like a silly thought, but then I’ve never seen how the body of a human (or anything else) begins life. The miracle of life always begins hidden away from sight.

However, if we use the body as a metaphor for an organization, then yes, it begins with the head. Jesus is not only the “head” of the church, he is also the heart and the soul.

January 11, 2025January 12, 2025

Colossians 2:19a – Losing Your Head

They have lost connection with the head …

Summary: History has many lessons for us. One of those lessons has to do with staying connected to your head, especially the one that you can’t see.

I’ve just finished reading a book on the history of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.*

The last part of the story is about the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth that took place after Lincoln was shot. At the end of the hunt, Booth was caught hiding in a barn in Virginia. The soldiers that had hunted him down had surrounded the barn, and since Booth was shut inside and refused to surrender, they lit the barn on fire.