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Sermon: Reframing the Sun
In our clip from this weeks sermon, Greg Boyd talks about how we respond to misfortunes and tragedies depends on how we frame them. In Colossians 3, Paul writes that Christ is all and is in all. When we frame our life within this understanding, we begin to see how we can live through misfortunes and tragedies.
You can view the full sermon here.
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Tags: Blessing, Colossians 3, Greg Boyd, Kingdom Living, Kingdom Responses, Life in Christ, Sermons, Theft, Woodland Hills Church
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