Grow In Faith
Life giving devotionals in under 5 minutes.
Pastor Mike Woodruff, Christ Church pastors, and others will guide you through the Bible and help provide insights into scripture and practical takeaways for your daily walk with God.
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How Could a Loving God Send Anyone to Hell?
We've reached the final devotional in our journey through Paul's letter to the Colossians — and we're closing with one of the hardest questions people ask about the Christian faith: How could a loving God send anyone to hell? It's an u...
Do All Religions Lead to God?
"All roads lead up the same mountain." You've probably heard it. Maybe you've even wondered if it's true. In today's Colossians devotional, we address one of the most common — and challenging — questions Christians face in our modern w...
What Does "Season Your Speech With Salt" Mean?
What if a single sentence could make someone thirsty for something more? In today's Colossians devotional, we take a close look at Paul's beautiful, practical instruction to let our conversations be full of grace and seasoned with salt —...
Buy Up Every Opportunity
The Christian life isn't a retreat from the world — it's an invitation into it. In today's Colossians devotional, we look at how Paul urges believers to move through daily life with eyes open, ready to speak, ready to invite, and unafraid to sh...
How to Share the Gospel Boldly and Clearly
We often think of gospel proclamation as something pastors do on Sunday mornings — but Paul had something bigger in mind. In this devotional, we look at how every follower of Jesus carries a message that no one else can tell, and how to be read...
Before You Talk to People About God, Talk to God About People
Paul is chained to a Roman guard in a prison cell. If you could ask a church anywhere to pray for you, what would you ask for? Release? Comfort? Better conditions? An early hearing with Caesar? Paul asks for something else entirely — and it rev...
Practical Ways to Build a Prayer Life That Lasts
Paul doesn't just say pray. He says devote yourselves to prayer. The King James says continue. The ESV says continue earnestly. The Message says pray diligently, stay alert, pray with your eyes open. In today's...
What Is Prayer?
We've arrived at the final chapter of Paul's letter to the church in Colossae — and it opens with a call that is beautiful, challenging, and (if we're honest) a little bit uncomfortable: "Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and than...
The Verse Every Dad Needs to Read
It's short. It's simple. It's a little uncomfortable. And it's directed specifically at fathers. In today's Colossians devotional, we sit with Colossians 3:21 — a verse every dad, stepdad, grandfather, uncle, and any man with influence i...
Why Don't We Talk About Death?
Alfred Nobel — the inventor of dynamite — once had the strange experience of reading his own obituary in the newspaper (after a paper mistakenly ran it when his brother died). What he read shook him so deeply that he changed the entire trajecto...
How To Take Off the Old, Put On the New
What does it actually mean to "put to death" the old self and "put on" the new? In this devotional, we dig into Colossians 3:5-11 and unpack Paul's powerful clothing metaphor — including the two lists of sins he refuses to let believers ...
Are You Living Like This Life Is All There Is?
A charging rhinoceros can run 40 miles an hour — but can only see clearly about 30 feet ahead. That means the rhino is charging faster than it can comprehend, crashing into things it never really saw coming. Sound familiar? In Day 33 o...
The Cross Looked Like Defeat. It Wasn't.
The cross looked like defeat. A man dying on a Roman execution device, abandoned by His friends, mocked by the crowds. But Paul says something else was actually happening in that moment — something so decisive it changed the course of ...
Paid in Full
Imagine a legal document listing every sin you've ever committed. Every wrong you did. Every good you failed to do. That document, Paul says, actually exists — and it stood against us. In Day 31 of our Colossians devotional series, we ...
Found Difficult and Left Untried
Yes — today's devotional is about circumcision. Stick with us. Because in Day 30 of our Colossians devotional series, we dig into Colossians 2:11 and uncover a truth about outward religion and inner transformation that hits closer to hom...
"In Christ All the Fullness of God Lives in a Body"
"For in Christ, all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form." It might be one of the most astonishing phrases in the entire New Testament. In Day 29 of our Colossians devotional series, we sit with Colossians 2:9-10 and let the sh...
Don't Get Kidnapped by Bad Ideas
The Greek word Paul uses in Colossians 2:8 isn't gentle. It doesn't describe a casual drift — it describes a kidnapping. In Day 28 of our Colossians devotional series, we explore Paul's urgent warning about the invisible ideas in ...
Rooted, Built Up, and Overflowing
What does a healthy, growing faith actually look like? In Day 27 of our Colossians devotional series, we dig into Colossians 2:6-7 and discover three powerful metaphors Paul uses to describe a maturing Christian life — and a beautiful in...
What Would Surprise Paul About the Church Today?
What would surprise the Apostle Paul most if he came back today? A prominent British theologian's answer might surprise you. In Day 26 of our Colossians devotional series, we step into Colossians 2:2 and discover the surprising ...
Who Are YOU Showing Up For?
Paul is chained to a Roman guard. He can't go where he wants. He can't be with the people he loves. He's not on vacation, on retreat, or at rest. He's struggling — and not for himself, but for people he has never even met. In Day 25 of...
Once You Were... But Now You Are
For weeks, Paul has been lifting up Jesus. Now in Day 24 of our Colossians devotional series, Paul turns the corner and brings it all down to us. Because everything he's been saying about Christ has stunning implications for you — and it...
They Spit on Their Creator's Face
We talk about the cross. We talk about the resurrection. But how often do we slow down and reflect on the incarnation — the staggering moment the Creator stepped into His own creation? In Day 23 of our Colossians devotional series, we sl...
Jesus's Resume Has No Close Second
When Paul talks about Jesus, he doesn't hold back. In Day 22 of our Colossians devotional series, we revisit one of the most stunning summaries of who Jesus is found anywhere in Scripture — and it reads like a resume with no close second.
Created BY Him, THROUGH Him, and FOR Him
We're in the last week of our journey through Colossians chapter 1 — and today we land on a verse that contains one of the most weighty and freeing truths in all of Scripture. In Day 21 of our Colossians devotional series, we unpack Colossia...
"Firstborn" Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means
"He is the firstborn over all creation." It's one of the most misunderstood phrases in the New Testament — and if you read it too quickly, you'll get it very wrong. In Day 20 of our Colossians devotional series, we slow down on this critical ph...
