Sunday
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Complaining Can Cripple the Unity of the Church (Philippians 2:12–18)
We all know the moment when grumbling and complaining crosses a line. It ruins a trip. It ruins a holiday. It ruins an event. It poisons the dynamics of a team, and in the end it always costs something. And when grumbling and complaining take root inside a church, what it costs is unity itself.… Continue reading
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The Humility That Holds a Church Together
Philippians 2:1–4 calls a church into unity through humility and service. Drawing on Bonhoeffer’s Life Together, here are seven practical tools for walking through church life with a focus on others. Continue reading
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Complete My Joy | Philippians 2:1–4
We are in Philippians chapter 2, and the first several verses connect directly to the last verses of chapter 1. Last week, we talked about Paul’s transition from himself — from the things happening around him — to the Philippian church. In that transition is a command to live in a manner worthy of the… Continue reading
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Living Worthy of the Gospel — Philippians 1:27–30
Paul shifts the focus from himself to the church. Now it’s the church’s turn to let their lives align with the gospel — standing firm in unity, unafraid in the face of opposition. Continue reading
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The Help of the Holy Spirit — Philippians 1:18–20
Paul’s undefeated confidence comes not from natural strength but from two sources: the prayers of others and the active help of the Holy Spirit. The same is available to us. Continue reading
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Philippians 1:3–11: A Prayer for Love, Knowledge, and Discernment
Last week, we started our journey in the book of Philippians. We know Paul wrote this letter to a church he helped plant in the city of Philippi, Macedonia. We know Paul was in prison while he wrote this book. Last week, we also saw that he wrote this letter for very specific reasons. Even… Continue reading
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Grace and Peace: What Paul’s Opening Words in Philippians 1 Are Really Saying
A sermon on Philippians 1:1–11 — how Paul’s opening words reveal the themes of humility, unity, grace, and peace that run through the entire letter. Continue reading
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Acts 28: Share the Gospel
Our final sermon in the book of Acts. Acts chapter 28 is the conclusion of our only history of the early church — and it ends with a challenge: share the gospel. Continue reading
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Holding On to the Basics
We’re in the final week of our series on superstition and hyper-spiritualism. One of the greatest weapons we have against both is faithfulness to sound doctrine — and that starts with making your home in the basics. Continue reading
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Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing
We are continuing our series dealing with superstition and what I like to call hyper spiritualism. We all roughly know what superstition is, but hyper spiritualism, as I call it, is a combination of mysticism, eastern religions, and new age thought. The problem is that those things, throughout all of the history of Christianity and… Continue reading
Zachary Peters 