1 Timothy 1:12-17 | Building a Healthy Church | Trent Hunter

1 Timothy 1:1-11 | Building a Healthy Church | Trent Hunter

Romans 6:1-14 | Baptism | Trent Hunter

Colossians 4:7-18 | Fulness in Christ | Trent Hunter

The endings of the New Testament letters don’t usually strike us as interesting or needful. But that’s one of the great values of expository preaching. We actually come to the end of a letter, and are forced to ponder why it is there, what it is doing, and what God had in mind by His Spirit in inspiring the passage. What will we find at the end of Paul’s letter? Names, commendations, instructions, logistics, and more. Of what value is this for us? Listen in to find out.

Colossians 4:3-6 | Fulness in Christ | Trent Hunter

Every healthy Christ-filled church has two movements. The book of Colossians has put most of its attention on the inward movement of the church, as we guard our doctrine, seek to live under the Lordship of Christ, and fulfill our various roles as husbands, wives, children, and parents. But there’s an outward movement that frames the entire book. In chapter 1 Paul spoke of the gospel which is bearing fruit throughout the whole world (1: 6), and now in chapter 4, Paul closes with a prayer request and instructions concerning the gospel’s advance (4:3–6).

Colossians 4:2 | Fulness in Christ | Trent Hunter\

Colossians opened with thankful prayer (1:3) and it ends the same way. In one simple verse, Colossians 4:2, Paul instructs us in what he has modeled: steadfast, watchful, and thankful prayer.

Colossians 3:22-4:1 | Fulness in Christ | Trent Hunter

In this sermon we come to a passage that raises all kinds of questions in our minds. Paul will address first century bondservants and masters about how fullness in Christ transforms their roles and relationship. What was this institution? How does it relate with the institution of slavery practiced in America’s history? How does it relate with present day boss and employee relationships? With some careful listening we’ll find much profit in the shrewd and beautiful works of Colossians 3:22-4:1.

Colossians 3:20-21 | Fulness in Christ | Trent Hunter

Colossians 3:18-19 | Fulness in Christ | Trent Hunter

With this sermon things get even more practical in Paul’s letter to the Colossians. Common in the first century were household codes. In Colossians 3:18–4:1 Paul outlines a household code for the Christian home. He addresses wives, husbands, children, parents, bondservants, and masters. Over the next three weeks we’ll work through these three pairs of relationships. We read this text at a distance of two millennia, so there will be at times some interpretive work do to. Listen in to see how the fulness of Christ can change a home.

Colossians 3:15-17 | Fulness in Christ | Trent Hunter

There was a problem at Colossae in the form of false teachers promoting an externally oriented form of Christianity that denied the internal heart of Christianity, which is Christ. In this passage, Paul tells us how to put Christ in the middle of His church.