As we turn our attention to this last section of Philippians, we've already learned about the peace of God which passes all understanding and the God of peace who's promised to be with us. We've discovered that blessings can be ours, which we [...]

I heard about a lady who was worried because she wasn't worrying as much as she used to worry, and she was wondering what she should be worrying about that she wasn't worrying about. Another man who hired somebody to worry on his behalf, paid him to [...]

In the early church there were a few men who were gifted with what was called exhortation. No question about the fact that Paul was one of those gifted men. They used their gift to encourage and motivate people and when they spoke, it was like you [...]

Here, in Philippians chapter 3, in verses 15 through 21, Paul is going to give us four motivations and reasons and helpful ideas about how growth happens and how we should cooperate with it. He begins in verses 15 and 16 with what I call great [...]

Here in this section, Paul is gonna let us in on the secret. He's gonna tell us what it takes to win, what it takes to reach the goal, the goal that he had in his heart. As he looks over his shoulder, Paul is gonna tell us how he appraised the past. [...]

Paul was a prisoner under house arrest in Rome, and he was writing letters to the churches like the church in Philippi, which he had a very, very serious relationship with. He loved the Philippians. He had spent time with them, and they loved him, [...]

Everyone in this room is a role model to somebody. I don't care who you are, somebody looks at you and takes their cues about life from the way you live, good, bad, or indifferent. In the book of Philippians in the second chapter, Paul is going to [...]

It was February 4th, 2007 and the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears were playing in Super Bowl 41 in Miami. The Colts were just 2 weeks removed from the greatest game in their history as they had come back from a 21 - 3 deficit against the [...]

Our attitudes are important. In fact, they are more important than our actions. We're to work on our attitudes. How many of you know we could all work a little bit on our attitudes? Maybe you came to church today and you got a bad attitude. You came [...]

Integrity is being the same. Someone once defined integrity for me as "keeping your commitments after the circumstances under which your commitments were made have changed". That's integrity. Well, because of his stand for the faith, Paul was facing [...]

As we start the next section of the first chapter which begins at verse 12, the verse starts this way, "The things which happened to me". How many of you know things happen to us? Things happen. Say that with me, "Things happen". When Paul prayed [...]

When Gale Sayers and Brian Piccolo, running backs for the Chicago Bears, began rooming together in the late '60s, it was a first for both of them. Gale Sayers had never had a close relationship with a white person, and Piccolo had never had a close [...]