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that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, Philippians 3:10 It happens every year. January arrives, and with it come our resolutions—plans to improve, restructure, lose, gain, and change. Yet by the time February arrives, many of those ambitions fade like the last traces of Christmas lights. But there is one resolution that must not—and cannot—be set aside: to know Christ more. Paul’s desire in Phi

For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6 Some teach today that a true Christian will never sin after they become a believer. The hyper-grace heretical teachers teach this. In John’s first epistle, he destroys this heretical teaching with one sentence, “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.“ (1 John 1:8) It is true that when an individual

Only live your lives in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, Philippians 1:27 Many have wondered what the meaning of life is. Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997) was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor, and the founder of Logotherapy, a form of existential psychotherapy centered on the search for meaning in life. He wrote, “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” When one becomes a Christian, one’s life’s me

Therefore, God also highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,  and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:9-11 Some claim that you can be a born-again believer by just declaring Jesus as Savior. When John MacArthur wrote his book, The Gospel According to Jesus , he was

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus . Philippians 3:13-14 Well today we is the first day of the New Year. The New Year means different things to different people. For some it is an exciting time as they look forward to what the New Year will bring. For others it may be a time to reflect

Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ . Philippians 3:8  In Philippians 3:4–7 Paul tells us he had acquired all the credentials that anyone could imagine they would need to be a righteous person. He was a Jew, and the Jews had always had a special place in God’s dealings with the human race. He had real ad

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus . Philippians 3:13-14 Well today we is the first day of the New Year. The New Year means different things to different people. For some it is an exciting time as they look forward to what the New Year will bring. For others it may be a time to refl