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Scripture:   Philippians 3:1-14 Listen Link: Listen link: www.lcepc.org then look for “sermons” tab. Don’t you love to hear a good personal testimony? For many of us our favorite day is when Teen Challenge comes. We appreciate hearing the stories of how the power of God is able to dramatically change a wasted life into a purposeful one through salvation by faith in Jesus Christ. We are amazed by how God can pick someone up out of the gutter and show them how to walk the straight and narrow path of righteousness. But here, we just read Paul’s testimony, that he was fine upstanding citizen, from a good lineage and doing everything right, went to the best school and graduated with honors. He was a religious man, raised in church, so to speak. He was a success according to the world’s way of looking at things. Then he met Jesus! On the road to Damascus he may have been literally lying in the gutter when he fell before the risen Lord. And that is when he realized that his own life

Scripture:   Philippians 2:19-30 Listen Link: Listen link: www.lcepc.org then look for “sermons” tab. Earlier this week I read this amazing story of devotion to the ministry. Spending the night alone in a canoe on the ocean would be daunting for just one night. But would you do that for five months, even though you can’t swim? One pastor did — for the sake of the Gospel. As reported by Mission Network News, Pastor Vedasto “Veds” Subiaga felt a burden for people on a group of small, isolated islands in the Philippines to know Jesus. He set out for the islands in a canoe. But when he got there, the villagers wouldn’t let him stay on the island overnight. He could visit during the day, but at night he had to sleep in his little canoe. Rather than go home, Pastor Veds lived on his boat offshore for five long months and built relationships. Bill Passons with AMG International says, “The interesting fact about that is the fact that he can’t swim, which is a crazy thing! I recently v

Scripture: Philippians 2:12-18 Listen Link: Listen link:  www.lcepc.org  then look for “sermons” tab. What’s happening in our world today? You read the news, right? Is the church losing its voice? Is the culture around us rejecting the Church as a source of gospel truth? Do they have any good reasons to? Well, it’s complicated. On the one hand, there is a spiritual battle and sometimes the forces of evil seem to win the upper hand for a while. On the other hand, the church does bear some responsibility for failing to live the way Paul calls us to in this text, until revival comes when things get so bad that we realize we really need God’s help. That’s the way it happened in the Old Testament. We see it especially clearly in the book of Judges.  It is even pointed out for us in Judges 2:18-19 ‘Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for them, he was with the judge and saved them out of the hands of their enemies as long as the judge lived; for the LORD had compassion on them as they groa

Scripture Philippians 2:1-11 Listen link: www.lcepc.org then look for “sermons” tab. Come and See. Look what Billy did! Watch what I can do. Videos of amazing feats of strength, agility and magic are all over Facebook. So are the funny mishaps and accidents. We love to see for ourselves what is going on in the world around us. Demonstrations mean a lot to us. Seeing is believing right? If seeing is believing, then it would be good for us to look at today’s text and see what Jesus Christ has done for us. I am going to talk about 4 things Christ has done for us that we need to see. First, I’ll just list them out. Then we’ll explore the depths. Here are the four things that this text tells us Christ has done that we need to see for ourselves. 1. Christ has revealed that we are united in him and he is in us. 2. Christ has revealed the mind of God. 3. Christ used a particular method to unite us with God and reveal God’s mind. And 4. Christ has arisen unto victory and exaltation a