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.

Alright, if you've got your Bibles, go to Colossians chapter 2, verse 16.

We're spending a few months going through this great book of the Bible, verse by verse.

And we're hearing from a man named the Apostle Paul and he's writing to this new church

plant, kind of like ours.

ours is an eight month old baby church plant just taking root and growing.

And how many of you are parents or grandparents?

You've raised a kid.

When they're little, you tell them, do this, don't do that because they don't have a

lot of reasoning skills and they're not sure how Colossian effect quite works yet.

So when the kids are little, you tell them, do this, don't do that.

But as they get a little older, you can't just tell them what to do.

You need to teach them how to think because you realize as a parent or a grandparent,

you can't always be there to make every decision for them or to make every decision with

them.

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