Joy in Christ

To Die Is Gain | Philippians 1:21

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1RfZSUWUgq7ShoTTk2Ig37?si=6c50721f46b94212 Study Guide For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Philippians 1:21 (ESV)   Having studied the immediate passage containing verse 21, we have embarked upon a two-part excursus into mining out the meanings of that verse’s two phrases. Thus, in our previous study, we attempted to explain and apply …

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Joy in Christ

To Live Is Christ | Philippians 1:21

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4A9f6ngWkYOGOha7ssVG4S?si=3bd81a46ae7b4251 Study Guide For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Philippians 1:21 (ESV)   Having studied verse 21 in its context, I am still compelled to wade further into the waters of this profound sentence. I’m calling this two week study an excursus because we are veering off the consecutive …

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Advancing the Gospel | Philippians 1:12-18

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0dnvb1vcgXAW8IVXo3NMhx?si=6da1ea10db6d421a Study Guide I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel, so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ. And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord …

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Praying Like Paul | Philippians 1:9-11

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1MclVO7lDwrfxkUCVpJRuL?si=Pc-tSZ-yQfGF8jFlw0cj2Q Study Guide And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and …

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Partners in the Gospel | Philippians 1:3-5

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4pTQ9zN8NP2CwwhaYnUofK?si=376c1cdfa3c943bf Study Guide I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.  Philippians 1:3–5 (ESV)   Paul’s letter to the church of Philippi is quite unique from …

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All Is Vanity | Ecclesiastes 1

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises, and …

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Grace to You & Peace | Philippians 1:1-2

  https://open.spotify.com/episode/2WYRKCJxABGBVPu21WVHDM?si=567750ea4d9a4f86 Study Guide Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus,To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Philippians 1:1–2 (ESV)   The letter of Philippians was written by the Apostle Paul to the …

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