Jul 30, 2014 | Christian Living, Family, Philippians, Psalms
2My wife Sue and I love to tell stories about our 17 grandchildren, but we can never say we have 17 grandchildren when we don’t also know that two of our grandsons are already in the presence of the Lord.* One of those little boys lived nine days, and the other little...
Jul 23, 2014 | Christian Living, Family, Philippians
I remember the moment when I had to tell my mother that her cancer had returned. She’d had surgery for a brain tumor and had been undergoing cancer treatments for about a year when her legs became weak. I delivered the news to her while she was lying in bed in our...
Jul 16, 2014 | Christian Living, Culture, Philippians
The Philippian Christians were worried about the future. They were being pressured by the governing authorities in Philippi, just as Paul and Silas were when they were in Philippi years earlier. Anxiety, fear, and the loss of peace are major themes in the final...
Jul 9, 2014 | Christian Living, Philippians, The Bible
The Apostle Paul lost everything when he answered the Lord’s call. He was a wealthy, well-educated Jew with a high social standing when he became a Christian. How did he respond to these losses? “I have suffered the loss of all things,” Paul wrote, “and I count them...
Jul 2, 2014 | Christian Living, Philippians
If it were possible to gain salvation by obeying the Jewish ceremonial laws, the Apostle Paul would have been one of the best qualified Christians in history. Paul was concerned about how his friends in Philippi might react to false teachers. These teachers followed...
