Upcoming Messages
"Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path." (Psalm 119:105)
We offer this tentative listing primarily for our worship leaders and their preparation. However, we also hope it will encourage everyone to read the Scripture passages in advance as you listen for God to speak.
Jan 12 – Philippians: Joy in God’s Good Work - Philippians 1:1-11 (we are “saints/holy people” because of Christ’s life given to us now, and because God is making us holy and will complete His good work in us; Our part in God’s work is to abound in love more and more in knowledge and discernment so we may discern/test/approve what is best, becoming pure and blameless and filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Christ)
Jan 19 – Philippians: Joy that God works good from bad circumstances - Philippians 1:12-26 (“what has happened to me has actually served to advance the gospel.”; God’s sovereign purposes can’t be stopped; deliverance through life or death)
Jan 26 – Philippians: Joy in humility trusting God to lift us up – Philippians 2:1-11 ("Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.")
Feb 2 – Philippians: Joy in the becoming what we will be - Philippians 2:12-18 (“continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.”; “So that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault”; the contrast of life in Christ with those who are perishing)
Feb 9 – Philippians: Joy in being loved by others - Philippians 2:19-30 (“that I also may be cheered when I receive news about you…he has served with me in the work of the gospel…my brother, co-worker and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger, whom you sent to take care of my needs.”; Christian fellowship revealed in loving actions and support)
Feb 16 – Philippians: Joy in Salvation by Faith - Philippians 3:1-16 (“not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. I want to know Christ”; Freed from self-righteous pursuits; the joy of a singular focus in life on Christ)
Feb 23 – Philippians: Joy in our Lord who reigns - Philippians 3:17 – 4:1 (“But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.”; living differently than the world; morality based on eternal life rather than temporary pleasures; the return of Christ)
Mar 2 – Philippians: Joy in the Lord that brings peace with people - Philippians 4:2-9 (“I plead with Euodia and I plead with Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord…Rejoice in the Lord always.”; Joy and peace with God changes the way we relate to people; re-arranged priorities by prayer in God’s sovereign power”)
Mar 9 – Philippians: Joy in the Lord that brings inner contentment - Philippians 4:10-23 (“I rejoiced greatly in the Lord…I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances…I can do all this through him who gives me strength”; the strength and grace God provides that is sufficient for any circumstance; provision of God in varied ways)