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.

So this fall, Grace and I will celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary and in the early

years of our marriage, meaning the first 20 years, we had this ongoing disagreement and

we would react differently to circumstances and I know that you're thinking it must have

been Grace's fault, of course, but no need to camp on that point, moving right along.

You would have this disagreement because a hard time would come suffering trial, difficulty,

tough season and Grace would be more joyful and optimistic and hopeful and she would say,

like, well, look at what God's doing or we're going to be okay or God's going to use this

or he's going to show up or he's going to take care of us and I would say, no, he's

not.

I was more thinking like puddleglam and eor were like good disciples for me, everything's

just bad and going to get worse.

And Grace had this philosophy that was different than mine when it came to suffering, temptations,

trials.

We would go through the exact same experience and we would respond very differently and

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