Category: <span>Blog & Bible Study</span>

We have been learning that the counting of loss is not about diminishing the lesser but learning how to magnify the greater. Paul’s points in the last few verses were not that his former joys were unfounded but that in Jesus he has found a far greater joy. Our witness is at times hurt by...

Veronica Y. Brayboy is part of our City of Refuge Fellowship family and each month she will be sharing her heart on our website blog. Below is her blog post titled “Beauty for Ashes” Years ago on one of my trips to the West coast during the Christmas holidays, as a gift, my son and...

In the beginning of Philippians 3 Paul begins addressing the issue that was creating disunity and division within the church at Philippi, the wrong belief that because “salvation is of the Jews” as Jesus said in John 4:22, that Gentiles had to become Jews, meaning be circumcised and adhere to the Law before they could...

Veronica Y. Brayboy is part of our City of Refuge Fellowship family and each month she will be sharing her heart on our website blog. Below is her blog post titled “Exposed!” “SKUNK!” That was the word out of my mouth as I scrambled to the back door to get the dogs in from their...

Two weeks ago, we were introduced to the Judaizers, a group of Jews who believed that Jesus was the Messiah, but at the same time believed and aggressively spread the message that the only way that anyone could receive salvation from Christ was if they first became Jews and then followed the Law. This group...

Veronica Y. Brayboy is part of our City of Refuge Fellowship family and each month she will be sharing her heart on our website blog. Below is her first post titled “Getting to Know God’s Love…” May I tell you a story? Once upon a time, there was a princess who lived in a Kingdom...

So far Paul’s letter to the Philippian church has included a greeting thanking God for their friendship, revelation of how he prays for them regularly and an update on his situation. Paul then jumped into the heart of the letter, a call and command to unity with each other through humility as modeled by Christ....

This past Wednesday, during our Philippians Bible study, we looked at verses 2:19-30, in verse 30 Paul writes this about Epaphroditus: “because for the work of Christ he came close to death, not regarding his life, to supply what was lacking in your service toward me.” In this entire passage, Paul takes us from challenge...

The first command of the book of Philippians was found in 1:27 “Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ”. From that point until tonight’s text Paul explained thoroughly what that looks like. Living worthy of the gospel is to live like Christ and for Christ with each other as the body...

Paul’s first command in the letter to the Philippians was in 1:27 “Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ . . .” Every command after that first one points back to it, everything that Paul tells them to do and not do is a step in living worthy of the gospel...