Technicolor Joy: A Study through Philippians
by Skip Heitzig · 26 episodes
ReligionSpiritualityChristianity
In the series Technicolor Joy: A Study through Philippians, we learn how to find joy in the most unlikely places as we discover that God can add color to the most black and white moments in life.
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Is Your Checkbook Converted? - Philippians 4:14-23
It’s a strange title for a sermon, I know. Yet it seems many of us try to separate what we believe in our hearts from how we behave with our finances. In these closing verses of th…
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How to Have Greener Grass NOW - Philippians 4:10-13
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. That saying embodies the philosophy that other people's circumstances are more desirable than our own. This attitude can…
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Think What to Do; Do What You Think - Philippians 4:8-9
Our minds are ever being confronted with ideas, temptations, principles, and values. The battlefield is found in mainstream and social media, universities, and professional journal…
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Overcoming an Anxious Mind - Philippians 4:6-7
One author noted that we could write on countless American gravestones this epitaph: Hurried, Worried, Buried. Fear, stress, worry, and anxiety ravage modern culture. These two ver…
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The Anatomy of a Healthy Church - Philippians 4:1-5
In the New Testament, the church is often called “the body of Christ.” Like a human body, it has many parts and functions. The church at Philippi was growing and with growth comes…
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Show Me Your Passport, Please! - Philippians 3:17-21
Anytime you travel overseas, a passport is required. Your passport is a document of citizenship, denoting your country of origin and permanent residence. Your name is written on th…
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Put On Your Running Shoes - Philippians 3:12-16
Though I prefer cycling to running, I appreciate the disciplined runner who has trained long hours and has conditioned his/her body to reach its maximum potential. One of Paul’s fa…
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Benefits of Being Believers - Philippians 3:8-11
Being a Christian believer cost Paul a lot. He lost his status, he lost his prestige among former peers, and he landed in a foreign prison cell, facing possible execution. So what…
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Get a Real Testimony! - Philippians 3:4-8
I have heard various people give their testimony over the years. A testimony is the story of how you came to believe in Christ personally. What is your story? Could you tell it to…
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Has Your Joy Sprung a Leak? - Philippians 3:1-3
I have a bicycle pump in my garage that stands constant guard to reinflate my tires. It seems that I have a slow leak in one of them. Perhaps from a very small thorn or a defect in…
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How to Treat Good (but Imperfect) People - Philippians 2:25-30
Some of the greatest people I have ever met have been relatively unknown individuals. They serve diligently behind the scenes with no desire for the limelight. Their names are not…
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A Little Help from My Friends - Philippians 2:19-24
Life without friendship is like the sky without the sun. Paul knew the value of having true friends who stuck with him during difficult times. And right in the middle of this lette…
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Glow in the Dark! - Philippians 2:14-18
To make an object glow in the dark, a phosphor that will energize by ambient light and have a very long persistence (like zinc sulfide and strontium aluminate) must be applied. For…
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How to Have a Great Workout - Philippians 2:12-13
Every day in every city, people go to the gym to get in a workout. Running on a treadmill, spinning on a cycle, working the stair-climber, and lifting weights are becoming more and…
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Be Humble or You'll Stumble - Philippians 2:8-11
Humility is that slippery quality that once you think you have it, you don't! Also, the pathway of humility is a hard one. For Jesus, it meant the cross. But humility will always b…
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What Would Jesus Do? - Philippians 2:5-8
The campaign What Would Jesus Do? has been around for years, challenging Christians to think about what Christ might actually do in any given situation so they might do likewise. B…
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Being Around People--While Still Being Sane! - Philippians 2:1-4
Relationships are hard. They take a lot of work. If you think about it, every person in the world is incompatible with every other person. Enough time together would reveal this tr…
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How to Stand When They Want You to Fall - Philippians 1:27-30
The truth is, we’re surrounded and outnumbered! The vast majority of the people we encounter in life don’t share our values nor worship our God. The difficulty of the Christian lif…
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Living on Earth; Longing for Heaven - Philippians 1:22-26
Knowing what Paul knew about heaven made him think very differently about earth. As Thomas Watson said, "Spiritual things satisfy; the more of heaven is in us, the less earth will…
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Can You Predict Your Future? - Philippians 1:18-21
If you were going to sit down and write a short description of what you wanted your future to look like, what words would you choose? Let me suggest four that come straight out of…