Treasure Your Forever Family
Scott Maze
Colossians 1:1-8
On January 1, 1959, one of my favorite musicians, Johnny Cash played a concert at the San Quentin prison in California. Now, Cash's life had its ups and downs but he was never actually a prisoner. Yet, he was able to sing songs that empathized with the lives of those who were there. In the audience that day was a young man who had escaped for a juvenile detention center seventeen times and finally found himself at one of the toughest prisons in all the country. In fact, going into the concert, this young man was worried for Johnny Cash knowing just how rough that place could be. The name of that young man was legendary country western singer, Merle Haggard. Ten years later, about to go on stage and sing with Johnny Cash he mentions - ''I was at your concert at San Quentin.'' Cash turned and said, ''I don't remember you being there.'' Haggard replied, ''I was in the audience, Johnny.'' Before this, Haggard hadn't really talked about his criminal past but something drew him to Cash to tell his darkest secrets.
Like Haggard, we encounter another prisoner, only this one doesn't keep his time behind bars a secret.
Let's read Colossians 1 together, will you?
Today's Scripture
''Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, 2 To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. 3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, 5 because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, 6 which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing-as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth, 7 just as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved ...
Scott Maze
Colossians 1:1-8
On January 1, 1959, one of my favorite musicians, Johnny Cash played a concert at the San Quentin prison in California. Now, Cash's life had its ups and downs but he was never actually a prisoner. Yet, he was able to sing songs that empathized with the lives of those who were there. In the audience that day was a young man who had escaped for a juvenile detention center seventeen times and finally found himself at one of the toughest prisons in all the country. In fact, going into the concert, this young man was worried for Johnny Cash knowing just how rough that place could be. The name of that young man was legendary country western singer, Merle Haggard. Ten years later, about to go on stage and sing with Johnny Cash he mentions - ''I was at your concert at San Quentin.'' Cash turned and said, ''I don't remember you being there.'' Haggard replied, ''I was in the audience, Johnny.'' Before this, Haggard hadn't really talked about his criminal past but something drew him to Cash to tell his darkest secrets.
Like Haggard, we encounter another prisoner, only this one doesn't keep his time behind bars a secret.
Let's read Colossians 1 together, will you?
Today's Scripture
''Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, 2 To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. 3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, 5 because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, 6 which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing-as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth, 7 just as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved ...
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