Howdy, Pastor Mark Triscoll here at the Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Really excited to provide for you the series of sermons based on the Book of Colossians.

It's an amazing book of the New Testament where the Apostle Paul is writing from prison to a newly planted

church and we took a few months here at the Trinity Church to go verse by verse through

this book of the Bible. I've had the honor of preaching

and teaching perhaps a few dozen books of the Bible in my career and this is the

first time I've ever been through Colossians and I'm really excited that you can

join me.

All right, if you've got your Bibles, go to Colossians chapter 2, starting in verse 6.

We're spending a few months going through the great book of Colossians and a little bit of background.

They're an early young baby church plant like ours.

Things are going well for them as they're going well for us.

And the man writing the book, name is Paul he's in prison

he's far away he loves them and he wants to encourage them to continue

flowing in the grace of God and he is warning them about strong currents that can come

and very quickly veer you off course and it got me thinking about an experience we

had some years ago it was summertime and the family and I were gifted this cool log home on this creek and we spent a few weeks there and out the backyard was this creek that you can throw a rock across even if you didn't have a great arm and it was maybe

knee to thigh high at the deepest point so not very dangerous. Frogs all over, fish jumping and swimming,

just sort of picturesque apple orchards all around it was pretty glorious

and people would float by sort of lazy easy going day trip down the creek in the back of this home

and I thought well that would be really fun how do you do that the creek in the back of this home.

And I thought, well, that would be really fun.

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