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.

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.

There are 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,

his 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 I got me thinking about an experience we had some years ago and 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 need a thigh high at the deepest points and

not very dangerous.

Frogs all over, fish, jumping and swimming, just sort of picturesque, apple orchards all

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