08/09/2026
Why is Jesus good news for you?
Because the gospel speaks to some of the deepest things we carry — our guilt, our search for meaning, our desire to change, our fear of death, and the exhausting feeling that everything depends on us.
Swipe through for some of the answers we’ve been discovering in Paul’s letter to the Colossians →
Which one hits home for you?
We spend so much of life trying to prove we’re enough. Successful enough, good enough, spiritual enough.
Jesus doesn’t give us another standard to reach. In him, we’re given what we could never achieve for ourselves.
“You have been filled in him.” Colossians 2:10
Our homes, careers, relationships and experiences are good gifts, but they were never meant to carry the weight of being everything.
Jesus lifts our eyes beyond the immediate: “Set your minds on things above.” Colossians 3:2
Christianity doesn’t begin with our journey towards God, but God’s journey towards us.
In Jesus, the invisible God has made himself known. “The Son is the image of the invisible God.”
Colossians 1:15
The good news doesn’t pretend our guilt isn’t real. It says Jesus has dealt with it. Paul describes our debt as being cancelled and nailed to the cross. Your past doesn’t have to have the final word.
Colossians 2:13–14
“And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.”
Family. Work. Money. The future. Ourselves. We can live as though everything depends on us. Colossians gives us a bigger picture of Jesus: “In him all things hold together.” — Colossians 1:17
The good news of Jesus isn’t that you can fix yourself. It’s that Jesus can rescue you. He brings us out of darkness and into his kingdom, where there is redemption and forgiveness. Real change begins not with trying harder, but with being rescued.
“He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son.”
Colossians 1:13–14
The Christian hope isn’t simply making the most of the years we have.
