This is THE greatest hit in Philippians, but we miss the point, the point is: to love like Jesus costs you your life AND gives you your life.

This famous line summarizes Paul's life.  The murderous religious zealot had been rescued by Jesus and he lived like it.

The salvation that God is accomplishing in His people is to them unnerving, knee-knocking, terrible work.  But it is the work of their freedom, of the death of all that binds and hinders them. It is the work of God.

The Gospel's Hope: God Can Be Trusted to Finish What He Starts

Contentment is happiness, it is joy.  It is a gift from God, to be learned in experience and finally to be enjoyed.

All Jesus' birth narratives were prophesies. Is NT prophesy the same thing? Is it real for modern times? If so, what is it and how is it to be used.

The greatest gift of the Lord Jesus is love. Love is about action; how a person lives in obedience to the Lord and  puts others before himself. Love creates the appropriate atmosphere for service and legitimizes it in the eyes of the church and the world!

Do you think you are an indispensable part of Christ's body the church?  If not, you've failed the church or more likely, the church has failed you.

Communion is a Holy family meal.  We mess it up when we miss the point.

No, idols are not real, but playing with fire still gets you burned.

God provokes us to take godliness seriously by showing us how in the past He did, very much so.

How we protect not only the zeal but the early development of our brothers and sisters matters... love is the answer.

Paul really encourages singles from either divorce or never married to stay that way if at all possible.

Paul gives more Gospel oriented help to the marries, single, divorced and sexually frustrated.

God has not given us permission to do whatever we want with our bodies or His body, the church. We are His.

God his designed His body to reflect His glory.  Sex scandals don’t.