Philippians 4:1-9 View this week’s sermon notes View this week’s worship guide [powerpress] I almost entitled this section “Stuff Christians Deal With” because Paul addresses several common problems Christians face. So, do you have at least one problem in your life? How about one problem in your church? If your can answer “yes,” to these […]
Philippians 3:12-21 View this week’s sermon notes View this week’s worship guide [powerpress] In Philippians 3:12-21, Paul uses an intense running analogy to describe the Christian life. Having described his passionate, all-consuming desire in verse 10, “to know Christ,” the apostle now tells the Philippians that he’s not stagnating. He’s not slowing down. He’s still […]
Philippians 3:1-11 View this week’s sermon notes View this week’s worship guide [powerpress] What do you treasure? Is there anything of surpassing value? Is there anything that deserves our life-long, passionate pursuit? The answer is “yes.” Paul describes it in verse 8,”More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of […]
Philippians 2:19-30 View this week’s sermon notes [powerpress] To see the importance of this passage, consider two questions. First, why do we have a travel itinerary at all? Second, why is this travel itinerary in the middle of the book? By speaking about Timothy and Epaphroditus, Paul provides concrete examples of what he’s been talking […]
Philippians 2:12-18 View this week’s sermon notes View this week’s worship guide [powerpress] Hip hop knows glory. They know that glory is meant to be seen; glory is meant to be displayed. Hip hop has an embedded conviction–if you come from nothing, and finally get “everything”–flaunt it. Thus slang terms like …”floss,” “swag,”and “shine.” So […]
Philippians 2:5-11 View this week’s sermon notes View this week’s worship guide [powerpress] In Philippians 2, Paul exhorts the Philippians to adopt Jesus’ death as their central outlook, their central mindset, for life. Instead of living to get and get and get – more women, more praise, more money, etc. – the Christian is called […]
Philippians 1:27-2:4 View this week’s sermon notes View this week’s worship guide [powerpress] The text is all about unity, unity against external pressures and unity against internal ones. What we see is that the Gospel unifies us to make us courageous against external foes and humbles us so that we can be unified against internal […]
Philippians 1:19-26 View this week’s sermon notes View this week’s worship guide [powerpress] Writing from a Roman prison, a chained man tells us about the meaning of life, and the glory of death. The apostle Paul tells us about a life worth living, and a death worth dying. Verse 21 summarizes it,” For to me […]
Philippians 1:12-18 View this week’s sermon notes View this week’s worship guide [powerpress] Try to put yourself in the shoes of our brothers and sisters in Philippi. The man who planted your church has now been arrested and will face Caesar. It is no shock that they are scared and shaken. Paul here will let […]
Philippians 1:9-11 View this week’s sermon notes