Sermon Text: Colossians 3:12-17
Sermon Title: “In the Key of Thankfulness”
Sermon Slides:
SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: If you Believe in the Gospel, Your Life Will Sing with Thankfulness. But if you’ve Lost Your Gratitude, it’s because you’ve Forgotten the Gospel.
SLIDE 2 – Sermon Point 1 – God’s Chord of Perfect Harmony … Is Grace, Love, and Peace (Col. 3:12-15)SLIDE 3 – John 15:12-13 – “This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. There is no greater lovethan to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”SLIDE 4 – Psalm 84:10 – “For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.”
SLIDE 5 – Sermon Point 2 – The Key to Thankfulness … is the Gospel of Jesus Christ (Col. 3:16a)SLIDE 6 – Ephesians 3:17-19 – “So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”
SLIDE 7 – Sermon Point 3 – The Gospel-Transformed Heart … Produces Songs of Thankfulness (Col. 3:16b-17)
SLIDE 8 – Three Uses of This Sermon for LifeSLIDE 9 – Thankfulness is a Shield Against the Devil.SLIDE 10 – Thankfulness Leads to Affectionate Living.SLIDE 11 – We Must Root the Music of our Lives in the Gospel.