The difference Christ makes (Colossians 1:11-20)

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Early in my ministry I worked my way through Stephen Hawking's book A Brief History of Time. This was Hawking's first book for average people (like me!), and in it he attempts to explain in relatively simple terms the origin and fate of the universe.