But for now I have considered it necessary to send Epaphroditus to you. For he is my brother, coworker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to me in my need. Indeed, he greatly missed all of you and was distressed because you heard that he had been ill. In fact he became so ill that he nearly died. But God showed mercy to himāand not to him only, but also to meāso that I would not have grief on top of grief. Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you can rejoice and I can be free from anxiety. So welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor people like him, since it was because of the work of Christ that he almost died. He risked his life so that he could make up for your inability to serve me.Philippians 2:25-30 NET This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit praytogether.substack.com
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I destroy 7 year old kids in checkers.
Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I, too, may be encouraged by hearing news about you. For there is no one here like him who will readily demonstrate his deep concern for you. Others are busy with their own concerns, not those of Jesus Christ. But you know his qualifications that like a son working with his father, he served with me in advancing the gospel. So I hope to send him as soon as I know more about my situation, though I am confident in the Lord that I, too, will be coming to see you soon.Philippians 2:19-24 NET This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit praytogether.substack.com
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Philippians Ep. 9: Interstate 70, a Love Story.
So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, continue working out your salvation with awe and reverence, for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effortāfor the sake of his good pleasureāis God. Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast: that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain. But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you. And in the same way you also should be glad and rejoice together with me.Philippians 2:12-18 NET This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit praytogether.substack.com
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School starts tomorrow. Let's fast and pray!
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After he fasted 40 days and 40 nights he was famished. The tempter came and said to him, āIf you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread.ā But he answered, āIt is written, āMan does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.āāMatthew 4:1-4 NET This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit praytogether.substack.com
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Success, celebrities and slaves
You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had,who, though he existed in the form of God,did not regard equality with Godas something to be grasped,but emptied himselfby taking on the form of a slave,by looking like other men,and by sharing in human nature.He humbled himselfby becoming obedient to the point of deathāeven death on a cross!As a result God highly exalted himand gave him the namethat is above every name,so that at the name of Jesusevery knee will bowāin heaven and on earth and under the earthāand every tongue confessthat Jesus Christ is Lordto the glory of God the Father.Philippians 2:5-11 NET This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit praytogether.substack.com