Col. 1:18 - "And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent."

This past Sunday during worship we imagined two children having a debate as they played in a sandbox. The question under consideration was, whose father was greatest? Each persuasively and passionately made the case for his respective father. In Colossians, Paul tried to help those believers understand that there really isn't any debate when it comes to who is greatest. Christ is supreme! In the first chapter, he made two sweeping points to prove Jesus' preeminence…