- 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
To see the gospel bear fruit in the Inner West and the World as we commit, grow, engage and send.
Sermons on Colossians
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)
- 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
- 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
- Prayer is Un-alone
- Prayer is Unceasing
- Prayer is Understanding
- Prayer is Unselfish
- We pray for God’s name to be hallowed
- This is the first prayer, our primary concern
- This is entirely right. God is worthy of all glory, honour, power and praise (Revelation 4:11)
- We are natural worshippers, this is what we were made for (Romans 1:18-25)
- This corrects our natural sinful prayer