Christ PCA Temecula Christ Presbyterian Church

This week in Philippians 2:19-30, Paul tells the Philippian church that he is sending two faithful workers to them: Timothy and Epaphroditus. He commends both men for their genuine service to the Lord, contrasting that with others who worked only in their own self-interest. We will look to see why Paul speaks of being anxious and how in sending the two faithful servants, it will ease his anxiety.

This week in Philippians 2:14-18, Paul urges the church to not grumble and complain and we’ll look at the roots of both. In our broken world, it’s easy to do, but how can we fight the urge to grumble and complain and how do those two things affect our witness to the watching world? What does it mean to “hold fast to the word of life” and how might that have been encouraging to Paul, despite facing the prospect of his own death?

This week as we look at Philippians chapter two, we will see that the Philippian church is facing difficulties and Paul encourages them to work out their salvation rather than to give up or try something new. We will look at what it means to fear and see the difference between working out our salvation and working for our salvation and where we get the strength to continue on in the faith.

This week through Philippians 2:1-11 we will look at how our union with Christ impacts our communion with one another and discover the two threats (selfish ambition and conceit) to Christian unity and community and why they are so detrimental? In addition, we will see how to combat these threats and how Jesus’ example of humility is the model for us today.

This week as we look through Philippians 1:27-30, we will see that the Apostle Paul is encouraging unity within the church. He also shows that this is an active process; that one must strive to achieve it and stand firm and to not be frightened. We will see what encourages unity, why it’s important, and how the Gospel can conquer the fears so that we may live a “life worthy of the Gospel”?

As we continues in our sermon series through Paul's letter to the Philippians, we come to chapter 1:18b-26 where Paul declares in verse 21 that for him, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. This passage confronts us with the realities of both life and death, and the profound depths that Gospel joy can plunge.