Phil.2:13 – NLT – For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him. The message of God’s grace has been misunderstood and misused since the time of the Apostle Paul. Augustine spent his ministry life fighting this error and preached consistently on grace calling it sovereign …
Phil.2:13 – Amp – For it is [not your strength, but it is] God who is effectively at work in you, both to will and to work [that is, strengthening, energizing, and creating in you the longing and the ability to fulfill your purpose] for His good pleasure. This verse touches on the greatest of …
MERRY TUESDAY BY PARRIS “But emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men” Phil. 2:7 If there is anyone that takes Advent to another level its St. Augustine. Using words as art he portrays the mystery in the manger. When God becomes man laying in a food …
MERRY MONDAY BY PARRIS. “My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you” Gal 4:19 Everyday we have to walk out our cruciform. Being cross shape people in a secular world and that takes on challenges all in its own. When our life takes on the shape of …
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Phil. 2:5-7 – Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in …
Phil. 2:12 ¶ Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; Phil. 2:13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. We don’t hear …
Phil. 2:13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. Have you figured out that the Christian life is not hard, it is impossible. That is the whole point of salvation. There is no way anyone can live the Christian life. Actually there was one …
Phil. 2:13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. This verse reminds us of our utter dependence upon God. Any good that we do originates in heaven. It is Christ in us, nudging and empowering us to go forward. It is the will and …
SONNY SUNDAY! BY Parris Bailey Phil.2:13 “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure” AHHHHH REDEMPTION! I don’t think we can ever fathom Christ in us and what was accomplished on the cross. What an honor for a Christian to see redemption unfold everyday in …
CHRIST’S EXAMPLE Phil. 2:8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. I am not so sure which is the most stunning; the glory of God seen in the deity of Christ and the infinite attributes associated with …
