- 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
To see the gospel bear fruit in the Inner West and the World as we commit, grow, engage and send.
Sermons on Colossians
- 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
- A people devoted to focused prayer (4:2-4 and 4:12-13)
- A people committed to wise witness (4:5-6)
- A people informed about suffering brethren (4:7-9)
- A people connected across vast distance (4:10-18)
- The Bible says what?
- Slavery in the 1st Century
- Colossians and Philemon
- How do these passages speak to us?
How do I live for Jesus when I’m with my family
- An instruction for Christian wives (v18)
- An instruction for Christian husbands (v19)
- An instruction for Christian children (v20)
- An instruction for Christian fathers (v21)
Having received Christ Jesus as Lord, how do I continue to live in Him? (2:6)
- Rejecting human ‘religious rules’ (2:20-23)
- Recalling our true identity (3:1-4)
- ‘Taking off’ old earthly ways (3:5-11)
- ‘Putting on’ the way of Christ (3:12-17)
- The next level
- Fine sounding arguments
- The solution
- Colossians 1:12b-14, 15-20, 1:27, 2:3, 2:9-15
- Colossians 2:6-7
- The problem reconsidered