Colossians Part II - Giving Thanks (1:3-8)
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Date:
6/26/2011
Type:
Sunday Sermon
Price:
FREE
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A sign of maturity is the ability to look beyond oneself to the benefit of others, to look beyond one’s own desires and longings and passions to consider the desires of others. Paul models this attitude in the opening of his letter to the Colossians. He thanks God not for gifts that he himself had received but rather for the gifts that God had chosen to give to the Colossians. In so doing he points the way to maturity – maturity is the ability to overflow with thanksgiving for all that God has given us and all that God has given others.
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Stuart Bryan attends St. David's Anglican Church in Post Falls, Idaho and is currently an STM student at Trinity Anglican Seminary in Ambridge, PA. For 17 years, he served as senior pastor of Trinity Church in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He and his wife, Paige, have been married since college and have been blessed with seven grown children (four biological and three adopted internationally) and many... read more
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