Hey if we haven't met I am Chelsea I get to be the the wife of Judah I was going to say the awesome wife but then I realize that is completely a self compliment instead of the wife of an awesome man so anyway I, I'm Juna's wife,

and we get to lead this community together.

It is our favorite thing we get to do

other than raising our three children.

And we just so often talk about how incredible it is that people every week get dressed get in the car on a Sunday morning you don't have to be here taking your time to choose to come here to hear about Jesus, to worship, to get in community.

It really is an amazing thing that we don't ever want to take for granted.

And if you haven't heard enough, so genuinely thank you,

especially in December when there's so many

things to be doing. Thank you for being here taking the time to make it through the

cold and the gray to come be at church. So I always obviously just want to say thank you always always always and we get to have fun this morning. I am preaching this morning in case you haven't figured out. I'm not just here to ramble and talk, which I am so excited about, and we are going to do that together. Sound good? So let's go to the book of Colosians. I love Colosians, and I have to be honest as I was as I was

prepping for this and really just thinking over these verses of this chapter it

really has gotten into me and I just have to say it's it's

helped me on a Tuesday afternoon you know those mundane afternoons of just real life and

so really truly my prayer for you as we get into this is that it'll help your Tuesday afternoon.

It'll help a Thursday afternoon.

It'll make a difference in your marriage, in your kids, and your life.

Because really I love that about our God he's so big and powerful but he

cares about the details of our lives and he wants to be with us in the details of our lives

so let's go read together, Colossians, and we're going to read a few, skip

around a few verses in here. I love this. So this is a letter written by Paul who was an

apostle, he was a pastor, a preacher a preacher he loved Jesus and there's this

group of people in Kalaise who he had never met before but he heard that they

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