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| End the Week with the DTP - September 30, 2011 | 30th Sep 2011 | View Full Story | Download |
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At the beginning of Philippians 3, Paul told his audience to rejoice (Phil. 3.1, see also 1.18; 2.17-18, 28), but interrupted himself before he could go into detail. In Philippians 4 he is able to expand, and the command to rejoice comes again – and again (Phil. 4.4, 10)! More than that, Paul describes the Philippians themselves as 'my joy' (Phil. 4.1, see also 1.4, 25; 2.2, 29). (more...) |
| End the Week with the DTP - September 23, 2011 | 23rd Sep 2011 | View Full Story | Download |
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'Finally' writes Paul to the Philippians – but he's only halfway through his letter to them! Like a pilot just about to touch down who realises he hasn't quite got enough runway to land safely, Paul pulls back on the controls and decides to go round again, because he has much more to say to them. (more...) |
| End the Week with the DTP - September 16, 2011 | 16th Sep 2011 | View Full Story | Download |
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Paul's letter to the Philippians is unusual amongst his letters, because it doesn't seem to have been written to address any major problems in the Church. Instead it offers the Philippians some guidance in how to deepen their relationship with God, and how this might have an impact on their everyday lives. (more...) |
| End the Week with the DTP - September 9, 2011 | 9th Sep 2011 | View Full Story | Download |
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The next few weeks of lectionary readings offer the opportunity to look in some depth at two of Paul's letters which offer us a window on to two different churches in Macedonia: those in Philippi and Thessalonica. Though the set readings for Trinity 13 to 2nd before Advent offer 'edited highlights' of Philippians and 1 Thessalonians, both sets are in sequence and allow us to look at each of the chapters of these two letters. (more...) |
| End the Week with the DTP - July 8, 2011 | 8th Jul 2011 | View Full Story | Download |
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We once had a 'promise auction' in the church where I was vicar, and as my 'promise' I offered to preach a sermon on any verse of the Bible which the bidder chose. The youth group took this as a challenge, and began to hunt out the most obscure verses they could think of (aided and abetted with a little too much enthusiasm for my liking by their leaders, I have to say!). (more...) |
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