I truly enjoy fresh figs. Sometimes when we open a beautiful fresh fig, the inside is full of worms. Some Christians are like that fig. On the outside they are doing right and appear to be living for God, but on the inside things are not good. Read Philippians 2:14-18. Transition Our text this morning […]
Dale Carnegie [an American writer] visited Yellowstone Park where he saw a grizzly bear. The huge animal was in the center of a clearing, feeding on some discarded camp food. For several minutes he feasted alone—no other creature dared draw near. After a few moments a skunk walked through the meadow toward the food and […]
In the business world, people advertise seeking to create need, have sales, use visual and audible appeal, and even stoop to deception to motivate people to buy their goods. Obviously, not all motivation is good. In the book of Philemon, the Apostle Paul sought to motivate Philemon to reconcile with his runaway slave Onesimus. Whether […]
The epistle of Philemon is the shortest of Paul’s fourteen letters. Though his letters to Timothy were a bit personal, they instructed him in the ministry. Philemon, on the other hand, is a very personal letter, written to Paul’s friend Philemon. Paul wrote this epistle while a prisoner in Rome, likely about 62 A.D. Several […]