Category: <span>Sermons</span>

Acts 13:20-22 Today I’m supposed to be talking about voting, and I’m going to, but probably not in the way that you are expecting because it is certainly not in the way I had originally planned. One of the things about election season is that you learn a lot, at least I do. You learn...

I Peter 2:11-17  It is often said that if you want to keep friends that you should never talk about religion or politics. One of my neighbors just recently told me that this was the rule in his house, that the only way to keep the peace is simply to avoid those two topics. The...

Philippians 4:2-9  Sin is the cause of a lot of what goes on in our lives. Recently we talked about the fact that all suffering is caused by sin. It might not be specific sin that causes specific suffering, but our lives were not created for suffering, we were not created to die, hell was...

Philippians 3:17-4:1 When I left home for the first time it was to go to college. I was 17 years old when we packed the family car and drove from Richmond, VA to Baton Rouge, LA. I remember watching my parents drive off a day after they had gotten me set up in my dorm room,...

Philippians 3:12-16 Last week we discussed Paul’s famous statement in Philippians 3, “what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ.” There is an exchange that is essential for transformation; those things that were important, that made up my identity, my pride, my hope and strength, those things must become unimportant...

In II Corinthians 5 Paul wrote “if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” In I Corinthians 13 Paul wrote, “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I...

Philippians 2:12-30 “Do all things without complaining and disputing.” Most of us have had this verse quoted to us at some point in our lives. This verse is used most often as a reaction to complaints rather than being proactive to prevent them. It has been quoted from parents to children, teachers to students, employers to...

Philippians 2:12-18 The call to unity through humility culminated with Jesus as our example of both mindset and activity. The mind of Christ is the conviction that considers others more significant than ourselves and the fruit of that conviction is obedience to the call of God, it is never thinking too highly of ourselves but...

This week, in Philippians 2:1-11, we continue to see the power and necessity of unity. Paul ties the conflict that the church at Philippi has watched him engage in to their own conflict. He calls this church to engage in the conflict of the gospel, to be affected and even suffer for the kingdom of God....

In Philippians 1:27-30 the Apostle Paul moves from encouraging the Philippian church about his situation to challenging them to live in the fullness of Christ in their own situations. He gives his first command of the letter in verse 27, “Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ”. While this statement is...