“I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed.” (Philippians 1:20)

Oscar Wilde once wrote, “We are all in the gutter, but some of us see stars.”

Dale Carnegie expressed the same attitude when he said, […]

“Unless the Church changes its form and gets back to community and the sharing of lives personally, the Church is done.” (Francis Schaeffer)

When Paul penned his letter to the Philippians, he wrote to a church that was experiencing […]

As I write this article Australia’s Mental Health Awareness Week 2020 has just concluded.

“What in the world does mental health have to do with relationships?” you ask.

Everything, actually – especially in this time of what has come to […]

If I was asked to name what I think is the number one issue that Christians struggle with today, without hesitation I would say it is anxiety.

Over the past fourteen years I have had many conversations with people […]

Philippians 1:18c – 20 reveals a pattern for humility that is closely connected with our capacity to experience joy in difficult and trying times.

In fact, humility goes hand in hand with joy.

How does humility increase our capacity for […]

Paul’s life circumstances when he wrote his letter to Philippi reveal he was in both literal and metaphorical chains. (See Philippians 1:12-20).

However, the life he lived out in those circumstances was far from chained!

In fact, you would be […]

Another way of translating the New Testament word for joy is “delight.”

So when we think of joy or delight, it is difficult to separate it from ideas of happiness or good, positive feelings. Joy certainly includes those things, […]

Introduction and Background to our series on the Letters to the Philippians

Author: Apostle Paul (probably around AD 61)

Theme: A number of theories have been proposed about when and where Paul wrote Philippians but the one best fitting […]