- 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 Christianity in Practice
- The significance of wisdom
- The source of wisdom
- ‘By wisdom a house is built’
- ‘built’
- ‘a house’
- Welcome wisdom
- The way you begin…
- Personal event
- Disruptive event
- Transformative event
- …is the way you go on
- Grounded
- Community
- Resilience
- Thankfulness
- 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
- Prayer is Un-alone
- Prayer is Unceasing
- Prayer is Understanding
- Prayer is Unselfish
- God’s forgiveness and ours
- Our Forgiveness
- God’s forgiveness and our emotions
Note: at 40:00 there was a break in the recording, denoted by a short beep
- What does it mean to pray ‘Our Father’?
- What does it mean ‘Our Father in Heaven’?
- What does it mean to pray as children?
- Should not:
- Pray for show (v5-6)
- Thoughtless repetition (v7)
- Inform God (v8)
- Pray like this:
- Follow the topics in the Lord’s Prayer
- Reframe how we think about our problems and come to God with them
