- The significance of wisdom
- The source of wisdom
- ‘By wisdom a house is built’
- ‘built’
- ‘a house’
- Welcome wisdom
- Hollow and deceptive philosophy
- Its origins
- Its promise
- Its boast
- Its demand
- Its omission
- Its efficacy
- Reasons to resist
- Fullness
- Circumcision
- Forgiveness
- Triumph
- Resurrection and Resistance
- The way you begin…
- Personal event
- Disruptive event
- Transformative event
- …is the way you go on
- Grounded
- Community
- Resilience
- Thankfulness
- The Woman’s healing
- Two Responses
- The religious leaders
- The people
- Challenge to us
- How we live
- Theological
- Paul’s big Gospel
- The firstborn over all creation
- The firstborn from among the dead
- The hope held out in the Gospel
- Why we need Paul’s big Gospel
- The Gospel and the powers
- The Gospel and the wisdom
- Paul’s Prayer
- ‘For this reason’
- ‘To fill you with the knowledge of His will’
- Please the Lord
- Praying with Paul
- The fact of Paul’s thanksgiving (Col 1:3)
- The content of Paul’s thanksgiving (Col 1:4-8)
- Faith in Jesus Christ
- Love for all God’s people
- Hope that has come to them
- Larger work of God
- Thankfulness as the Bassline of the Christian song Col 3:15-17)
- Thankfulness and the heart of the Gospel
- Thankfulness and the nature of God
- Thankfulness and the shape of Christian ministry
- Interruption
- The Shape of Paul’s Ministry
- Suffering and Affliction
- Proclamation and Admonition
- Struggle and Labour
- Ultimate Goal
- Paul’s Ministry and Ours
- A common vision
- A common message
- A common struggle
- Reaffirmation
