John Farley
Pastor-Teacher
Wednesday,
November 26, 2014
Fourteen COLOSSAL reasons to be thankful


Fourteen COLOSSAL things to be thankful for!
- Grace
- The peace of Christ
- God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
- Faith, love and hope
- The word of truth, the gospel
- The only real wealth
- Being strengthened with all power
- The inheritance of the saints
- Being rescued from the domain of darkness and being transferred to the kingdom of God the Father’s beloved Son!
- The forgiveness of our sins
- Christ as the head and us as His body. We are IN CHRIST –forever!
- Christ in you, the hope of glory
- God’s mystery: Christ
- Our being made complete in Christ
The New Testament textbook on thanksgiving
the book of Colossians
The subject of Colossians is Christ. In the BIGGEST way!
Sinning is harmless?
Wrong! That’s giving your body to the cruel master.
Colossal Christ.
Christ is presented at His most glorious: all the mind-boggling dimensions of who He really is!
A mystery is truth hidden in the past but at the proper time revealed by God in His word.
Colossal Christ.
We are thankful for Christ: for Him and for what He has done for us.
Colossians also tells us what to do with our gratitude once we find it.
- Compassion & Kindness
- Humility & Gentleness
- Patience
- Bearing with one another
- Forgiving each other
- Love
- The peace of Christ
- The word of Christ, teaching it, admonishing one another, singing
- Wives being subject to your husbands
- Husbands loving our wives
- Children being obedient to parents
- Fathers caring for the hearts of their children
- Prayer with an attitude of Thanksgiving
- Being wise and gracious with strangers and neighbors.
14 things to be thankful for
14 ways to let the gratitude overflow
1 Colossal Christ