Standing Firm and United
Citizens of heaven who stand firm in the Lord can endure anything
Citizens of heaven take responsibility to guard unity of the church
Citizens of heaven lavish honor and celebrate the dignity of women
Standing Firm and United
November 5, 2023 • Pastor Boyd Bettis • Philippians 4:1–3
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Final Exhortations
November 19, 2023 • Pastor Boyd Bettis • Philippians 4:10–23
Final Exhortations Philippians 4:10-23 When we intentionally support our friends on mission, we are not only pouring gas on their missionary fire but simultaneously reviving their weary souls. — Philippians 4:10, 15-18 When we sacrificially give we can be confident that God will provide for us in proportion to His own riches and glory. — Philippians 4:19-20 Always remember God is relentlessly pursuing every person in every place, which means no one is too far from God’s grace. Philippians 4:21-23 Until I can truthfully say that Christ is enough, I’ll never be able to experience what it means to be content. - Philippians 4:11-13
What has the Authority?
November 12, 2023 • Pastor Joshua Wicker • Philippians 4:4–9
This Past Sunday we continued our sermon series through the book of Philippians. In Philippians 4:4-9 Paul reminds the church at Philippi to rejoice. Paul shares both the reason why we rejoice and tells of how we are to use our entire personhood, both mind and body to rejoice. As we look at this text we ask: Who has authority to tell us what to do? How do we rejoice? And that rejoicing needs reason. V5 How Anxiety (uncertainty, agitation, dread, or fear) is met with prayer and supplication (the action of asking or begging for something earnestly or humbly.) Who forms the interior design of your mind? There is one and only one that has the ability to not only speak into the spaces of our mind but cleanse the spaces of our mind. To remove and re arrange.
Straining Toward the Goal
October 29, 2023 • Pastor Joshua Wicker • Philippians 3:12–21
Paul begins Philippians 3:12 with the thought and desire for complete wholeness or perfection, and he concludes at Philippians 3:21 with the realization of complete wholeness or perfection. What lies in between are fundamental instructions, expressions, and disciplines for how we too are to obtain what Paul is pursuing. Paul continues this portion of the text by sharing his desire for a likeness to Christ, righteousness through faith, resurrection from death, and eternal separation from sin and suffering. Throughout the first 5 verses, we witness motion or "action." Paul uses words like "pressing on" and "straining forward." In doing so, Paul is creating a model for us to follow, reflecting what is written in 1 Corinthians 11:1-2: "Imitate me as I imitate Him." Paul's intent is not for us to merely watch his life and faith, but to join him in imitating Jesus. Through our spiritual formation, we begin to mature, gaining clarity about the ways we are to live as citizens of heaven in anticipation of Christ's return.