Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Philippians 4. When we read Philippians 1 last week, I described to you the giving track record of the church in Philippi. Thanking the Philippians for their financial support was one of the key reasons that Paul wrote this letter. We saw that in […]
Philippians 3
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Philippians 3. In many of the places where Paul founded churches, he faced immediate opposition and follow-up opposition. Immediate opposition refers to the persecutions he faced from locals–sometimes Jewish, sometimes Gentile–who were opposed to the growing gospel message. We read about these frequently in the […]
Philippians 2
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Philippians 2. What are some ways we believers in Christ are distinct from the world around us? We have different beliefs about the past and the future, for one. We have different morals that cause us to make different choices and respond differently when we […]
Philippians 1
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Philippians 1. This is another of Paul’s prison letters (v. 7: “whether I am in chains…”), this one written to the church at Philippi. Paul founded this church during his second missionary journey (Acts 16:6-40). He also visited Philippi twice during his third missionary journey […]
Philemon
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read the book of Philemon. This is yet another of Paul’s prison letters as we saw in verse 1, “Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ….” Verses 1b-2 tell us the recipients of this letter who were, “Philemon… Apphia [almost certainly Philemon’s wife] our sister and […]
Colossians 4
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Colossians 4. This chapter began by continuing to describe how being raised with Christ and setting our minds on things above (3:1-2) changes our daily lives. After applying this truth to masters (4:1), the scripture turned to our prayer lives (vv. 2-4) and how […]
Colossians 3
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Colossians 3. In many different ways, Christ calls us to live in the present based on things that are past or future. In the present we have to live in a fallen world and we struggle against the instincts of our fallen nature. But […]
Colossians 2
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Colossians 2. The church at Colossae that received this letter was not started by Paul. Colossians 1:7 plainly states that the people who received this letter from Paul had received the gospel from “… Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of […]
Colossians 1
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Colossians 1 Whenever I read Paul’s descriptions of his prayers, I am struck by how different they are than the way I often pray and the way that I’ve heard most other Christians pray. Frankly, most of our prayer requests and prayers for each […]
Ephesians 6
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Ephesians 6. This chapter began by continuing to specify what it meant to “walk in the way of love “ (5:2a) for children (vv. 1-3), fathers (v. 4), slaves (vv. 5-8), and masters (v. 9). The rest of the chapter encouraged believers to prepare […]