Guest Preacher Jay Reynardus  ·  Colossians 3:18-4:1  ·  Sunday, August 23, 2026

Our culture is adrift, Jay Reynardus argues, because it has abandoned God and keeps inventing new ways to flourish without Him — each one promising a better marriage, a better way to raise children, a better life, and each one collapsing in turn. Paul's answer in Colossians 3:18-4:1 is not a set of rules for who outranks whom. It is a household with Jesus at the centre. Reynardus works through the three relationships Paul names. Marriage, where the goal is not self-fulfilment but the glory of Christ seen in your spouse — and where the practical secret is simply to outserve each other. Parenting, where the aim is not well-mannered children who stay off drugs but children pointed to Christ, and where the fastest way to lose them is a faith that appears on Sunday and vanishes by Monday. And work, where Paul elevates the bondservant by telling him his labour matters to God, then levels the master by reminding him he has a Master too. For anyone whose own parents were the opposite of this, the sermon turns pastoral: whatever your father was, in Christ you have a true and perfect Father who will not fail you.