Colossians Part VII - So Walk in Him (2:6-7)
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Date:
8/7/2011
Type:
Sunday Sermon
Price:
FREE
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Paul, we have seen, is no fool. Through his leadership the Gospel has come to Colosse in the person of Epaphras. The church has been born. But now there are troubles. The Colossians are being tempted to draw away from Christ. And so Paul is taking the time to write to them in an attempt to raise them to maturity. As we have seen, his desire for the Colossians is not simply that they profess faith in Christ – that they come to birth – but that they grow to maturity, that they be presented “perfect” in Christ – holy, blameless, and beyond reproach. So how did he intend to accomplish that?
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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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