There seems to be something inside of us, maybe our flesh or our pride or whatever, something like that, that makes us take what is the best news in the universe and, either out of fear or a sense of control, add to that, and in adding to that best news in the universe, we…

Philippians is the only letter that we have in the Scriptures in which Paul is not trying to correct bad teaching or rebuke bad behavior. It may be, then, that this letter is the best New Testament picture we have of what a maturing church looks like and what maturing people do. Matt ChandlerClick to…