- Time, opportunity and Mission of the Gospel
- Greetings (v7-18)
- Prayer (v2-4)
- Wisdom (v5-7)
- Wives and Husbands (3:18-19)
- Children and Fathers (3:20-21)
- Slaves and Masters (3:22-4:1)
- Ordinary life and Lordship of Christ
- Wisdom in Colossae
- Dying and Rising with Christ (Col 2:20-3:4)
- Putting off, putting on (Col 3:5-11)
- The Indwelling Word
- Focus and Scope
- ‘at home-ness’ in the church
- Reverberates within the church
- Words and deeds
- Application
Colossians 3:1-1410Two metaphors
- Death and Resurrection (v1-4)
- New Identity (v9-10)
- Put to death…
- How we are to change
- Set your heart on things above (v1-4)
- clothe yourselves with compassion (v12-14)
- A costly welcome: radical relationship redemption through the Gospel
- The foundations of Paul’s appeal
- 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