Focused on Jesus

Saturday November 22, 2025 Text: Colossians 1:13-20 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Passages: Colossians 1:13-20

Who wins most stubborn hunter? How long are you willing to sit outside without moving to get the record? It takes tenacity, persistence, patience, perseverance, and focus to be a really good hunter. You have to be single-minded if you’re going to get that 20-point buck. While single-mindedness might not be natural to humans, the

Christ Has Set His Mind on You, Set Your Mind on Him

Saturday August 2, 2025 Text: Colossians 3:1-11 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Passages: Colossians 3:1-11

Carl Sagan was once asked by a student, “If there is no God, then where does that leave us?” Carl Sagan answered, “On our own. Which to my mind is much more responsible than hoping that someone will save us from ourselves so that we don’t have to make our best effort to do it

These Are Men Who Preached Christ

Monday September 23, 2019 Text: Colossians 4:7-18 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Tags: public ministry Passages: Colossians 4:7-18

This is not just a list of random faceless people. These are men and women whose names the Holy Spirit recorded in Scripture. They are people who received praise not from men but from God for the work they did. They are both an example to us and an encouragement lest we become disheartened by our own labors for the Lord.

Keeping Christ On Your Lips

Monday September 16, 2019 Text: Colossians 4:2-6 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Tags: evangelism / prayer Passages: Colossians 4:2-6

What can you do? Nothing by yourself of course, but through prayer you can arm yourself and prepare asking the Lord for both opportunity and ability to make use of that opportunity to share the Gospel. The time is short the harvest is vast.

What Christ Did Is the Basis for All That We Do

Tuesday September 3, 2019 Text: Colossians 3: Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Tags: children / depression / employees / employers / forgiveness / hatred / husbands / masters / parents / servants / singing / wives Passages: Colossians 3:

Christ has loved you therefore you love. Christ has given you peace therefore you live in peace Christ has given you joy therefore serve him

How To Live In The Image Of Our Creator

Tuesday August 27, 2019 Text: Colossians 3:1-11 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Tags: baptism / covet / crude jokes / crude language / gambling / lieing / sanctification / sinful desires Passages: Colossians 3:1-11

Pull out evil by the root. Daily use the power that is ours through our baptism.

Only Christ is Necessary

Monday August 19, 2019 Text: Colossians 2:16-23 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Tags: regulations / sabbath / salvation / third commandment / traditions Passages: Colossians 2:16-23

For the meaning is: Since righteousness of the heart is a spiritual matter, [creating life in] hearts, and it is evident that human traditions do not [create life in] hearts, and are not effects of the Holy Ghost, as are love to one's neighbor, chastity, etc., and are not instruments through which God moves hearts to believe, as are the divinely given Word and Sacraments, but are usages with regard to matters that pertain in no respect to the heart, which perish with the using, we must not believe that they are necessary for righteousness before God.