Hope Presbyterian Church In Winston-salem Sermons

Series: Colossians: A Love SupremeScripture: Colossians 3:17-4:1 “That she was his half, she had no doubt at all. He needed her. At times she knew with a joyous ache that she completed him, just as she knew with the same joy that she needed him and he completed her. How beautiful a thing it was, she thought, to be a half, to be completed by such another half! When had there ever been such a yearning of halves toward each other, such a longing, even in quarrels, to be whole. And sometimes they would be whole.” Wendell Berry, “A Jonquil for Mary Penn” in Fidelity “As I look back over the years of my pragmatic parenting, I’m saddened, but I am also gladdened, for you’ve always been faithful to your covenant love, even when I was overbearing and under-believing. The move from parenting by grit to parenting by grace has been a fitful but fruitful journey. Take me deeper; take me further.” Scotty Smith, “A Prayer for Parenting and Re-Parenting by Grace” “Smiting on an anvil, sawing a beam, white-washing a wall, dri