Sermons on Philippians

The Mind of Christ Sunday, December 3, 2023 at The First Congregational Church of Marshalltown, Iowa Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,.. I read recently that the ancients believed that a person could get the “mind of God,” that they learn, or somehow gain, the ability to think like God, to look at life from God’s perspective, which, according to the Old Testament, is very different from the way we view the…

He Emptied Himself Sunday, July 17, 2022 at The First Congregational Church of Marshalltown, Iowa Philippians 2:5-7  “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.”   Introduction: The Bishop in Les Misérables.  What he did. Some years ago I read…

Scripture: Philippians 3:8