Adi 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 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.

It's always interesting when you experience another culture.

I could still remember when I was a little boy, my dad was a Union drywaller and we lived

right next to an international airport.

So the planes would fly overhead and shake the windows on the home.

And what would happen is people would move to the United States of America seeking often

a better life for themselves and for their family and they didn't have anyone that they

knew, they didn't have a job awaiting them, they didn't have a lot of money or possessions

with them.

So the plane would land, they would get off the plane rather and then simply just sort

of land wherever they were and live there for a while and we lived right next to the

airport and so in our immediate neighborhood, the number of cultures, people from various

nations, languages, it was almost unbelievable.

It seemed like every house that I went to when I was a little boy, that family, the parents

of my friends spoke a different language than I did.

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