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.

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

oftentimes 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, 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 and I remember as a little boy going to one

friends home from East India, another from Africa, another from an Asian country,

another from a Latin American country, and every time I would go to their home to be with my

friends, I would realize I just stepped into a completely different culture.

The language was different, the customs were different, the furnishings were different, the

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