This morning – warm sunshine, summer has arrived – we had a good crowd for a varied service at PBC. Two special parts of the service were, first, a 10 minute talk from a local representative of the Gideons – famous for their evangelistic distribution of the Bible – and, second, a prayer for the world led by 8 people from 8 different countries around the world. This was to tie in with today’s Global Day of Prayer.
The sermon was the 6th in the Philippians series, finishing off chapter 3 of Paul’s letter on gospel centred living. The section is a reminder that the Christian life is a journey of hope. It does not end until it ends, so we need to keep pressing towards the goal; as we do so , we need to take note of the people who are on and around the path – some of them are worth following but others need to be avoided, and we need to remember that we belong to another kingdom whose King holds our glorious future in his hands.
Here is a link to a written version of the message.
