Philippians

Covers Philippians 1

How Paul's prayer in Philippians 1:9-11 reorients prayer away from the merely practical — growing in the love of Christ is not divorced from holy living but is its root, the heart-change that makes lasting behavioral change possible.

Covers Philippians 1-4

Joe's Bible Translation — Philippians 1-4.

Covers Matthew 4 · Mark 1 · Luke 4 · Genesis 3 · Genesis 8 · Ecclesiastes 7 · Genesis 2 · Galatians 6 · Psalm 104 · John 1 · Philippians 2 · Hebrews 2 · Hebrews 5

Following his baptism, Jesus is led by the Spirit into the wilderness where he is tempted by Satan for forty days. This account, with varying degrees of…

Covers Philippians 2 · Exodus 36

Counting others more important than ourselves, with Christ's self-emptying as the model — and how the building of the tabernacle in Exodus 36 pictures a community whose interdependent gifts meet needs no individual could meet alone.

Covers Philippians 2

Why the most selfish way for Christians to live is selflessly — between eternal reward, God's promise to provide for the generous, and the Philippians 2 vision of a community where everyone's needs are met better together than alone.

Covers Exodus 37 · Philippians 3

How the slow pacing of Hebrew narrative (like the tabernacle construction) signals importance rather than tedium — paired with Paul's claim in Philippians 3 that knowing Christ surpasses all things, and what that means for striving after righteousness without fear of losing salvation.

Covers Philippians 3

Paul's call in Philippians 3 to choose carefully whose example we follow — warning that the most dangerous bad examples are not the obvious failures but the kind, decent people whose citizenship is not in heaven and whose minds are set on earthly things.

Covers Philippians 4

Paul's charge to dwell on whatever is true, honorable, and lovely, applied to the age of social media and streaming — arguing that daily quiet time alone cannot reshape a mind soaked the rest of the day in content that pulls the heart the opposite direction.

Covers Philippians 4

Why Philippians 4's call to dwell on what is good lands harder today than for its first readers — modern minds must first relearn how to dwell at all before they can reclaim what they dwell on, against a global firehose of distraction and negativity.