SERIES: Philippians: Cheerful Sounds from a Jail Cell A Joyful Servant of Christ SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: For a number of months now I have been using a New International Version called The Student Bible. I have enjoyed the pithy notes and comments by Phil Yancey and Tim Stafford, the editors; they are quite different from the notes found in most study Bibles. I have borrowed their title for Philippians as the title for this summer series: “Cheerful Sounds from a Jail Cell.” I like…
SERIES: Philippians: Cheerful Sounds from a Jail Cell A Christian Perspective on Trouble and Troublemakers SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: In our new series on Philippians entitled, “Cheerful Sounds from a Jail Cell,” we come today to Philippians 1:12-18 and the subject of “A Christian Perspective on Trouble and Troublemakers.” No doubt some of you will recall that only six weeks ago I preached a message from 1 Samuel on trouble. In that sermon we indicated that if ever a person deserved…
SERIES: Philippians: Cheerful Sounds from a Jail Cell The Christian Perspective on Life and Death SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Today is not only Father’s Day. It is also Juneteenth. How many of you have heard of Juneteenth? Not too many apparently. I know one thing about those who didn’t raise their hands—you’ve never lived in Texas. Juneteenth is what African Americans in the Deep South, particularly Texas, call June the 19th. That is the day Union Troops arrived in Galveston in 1865, officially freeing Texas’ black…
