First Reading
Colossians 2:6-15
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
6As therefore you have received Jesus Christ the Lord, walk you in him;
7Rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as also you have learned, abounding in him in thanksgiving.
8Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy, and vain deceit; according to the teaching of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ:
9For in him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead corporeally;
10And you are satisfied in him, who is the head of all principality and power:
11In whom also you are circumcised with circumcision not made by hand, in despoiling of the body of the flesh, but in the circumcision of Christ:
12Buried with him in baptism, in whom also you are risen again by the faith of the operation of God, who has raised him up from the dead.
13And you, when you were dead in your sins, and the uncircumcision of your flesh; he has quickened together with him, forgiving you all offences:
14Blotting out the handwriting of the command that was against us, which was contrary to us. And he has taken the same out of the way, fastening it to the cross:
15And despoiling the principalities and powers, he has exposed them confidently in open show, triumphing over them in himself.