- Paul’s Prayer
- ‘For this reason’
- ‘To fill you with the knowledge of His will’
- Please the Lord
- Praying with Paul
To see the gospel bear fruit in the Inner West and the World as we commit, grow, engage and send.
Sermons by David Starling (Page 3)
- 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
- Daniel – Chapter 2, Chapter 7
- Mark – Chapter 1, Chapter 2
- Implications for us:
- A call to resist
- A call to repent
- True and False Shepherds (v1-10)
- The Good Shepherd Lays Down His Life (v11-18)
- My Sheep Hear My Voice (v25-28)
- Fatherhood and Power – the sent-ness of the Son
- The suffering of the cross
***Please note that due to technical errors, the last 5 minutes of the sermon are not included in this recording***
**Please note that the Bible reading and the first 2 mins of the sermon are not included in this recording
John M. G. Barclay describes in his book Paul & the Gift
Six “perfections of grace”
- Superabundance
- Singularity
- Priority
- Incongruity
- Efficacy
- (Non-circularity)