TRUE CHRISTIAN CONDUCT AT PHILIPPI (5 OF 11)
Scripture: Philippians 2:12-13
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True Christian Conduct at Philippi (5 of 11)
Series: Philippians
Donald Cantrell
Philippians 2:12-18
I - One's Sanctified Work (12 - 13)
II - One's Significant Witness (14 - 15b)
III - One's Shining Walk (15c - 16)
IV - One's Savory Wish (17 - 18)
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Living Without Purpose
French author, Guy de Maupassant was one of the greatest writers of short stories the world has ever known. Within ten years he rose from relative obscurity to fame. Just what he thought he'd always wanted. His material possessions showed a life of affluence...a yacht in the Mediterranean, a large house on the Norman coast, a luxurious apartment in Paris.
It was said of him that ''Critics praised him, men admired him and women worshipped him.'' He had all the trappings of what the world would call the ''fulfilled dream life.'' Yet at the height of his fame he went insane, brought on by what those close to him called a ''Promiscuous lifestyle.''
On New Year's Day in 1892, he tried to cut his own throat with a letter-opener, and lived out the last few weeks of his life in a private asylum on the French Riviera. He died at the age of forty-two, but before he went insane he prophetically wrote what was to be his epitaph. Guy de Maupassant wrote, ''I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.''
Martin Luther said ''A religion that does nothing, that saves nothing, that gives nothing, that cost nothing, that suffers nothing, is worth nothing.''
Who was St Tarcisius? We do not have much information about him. We are dealing with the early centuries of the Church's history or, to be more precise, with the third century. It is said that he was a boy who came regularly to the Catacombs of St Calixtus here in Rome and took his special Christian duties very seriously.
He had great love for the Eucharist and various hints lead us to conclude that he was presumably an acolyte, that is, an altar se ...
Series: Philippians
Donald Cantrell
Philippians 2:12-18
I - One's Sanctified Work (12 - 13)
II - One's Significant Witness (14 - 15b)
III - One's Shining Walk (15c - 16)
IV - One's Savory Wish (17 - 18)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
Living Without Purpose
French author, Guy de Maupassant was one of the greatest writers of short stories the world has ever known. Within ten years he rose from relative obscurity to fame. Just what he thought he'd always wanted. His material possessions showed a life of affluence...a yacht in the Mediterranean, a large house on the Norman coast, a luxurious apartment in Paris.
It was said of him that ''Critics praised him, men admired him and women worshipped him.'' He had all the trappings of what the world would call the ''fulfilled dream life.'' Yet at the height of his fame he went insane, brought on by what those close to him called a ''Promiscuous lifestyle.''
On New Year's Day in 1892, he tried to cut his own throat with a letter-opener, and lived out the last few weeks of his life in a private asylum on the French Riviera. He died at the age of forty-two, but before he went insane he prophetically wrote what was to be his epitaph. Guy de Maupassant wrote, ''I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.''
Martin Luther said ''A religion that does nothing, that saves nothing, that gives nothing, that cost nothing, that suffers nothing, is worth nothing.''
Who was St Tarcisius? We do not have much information about him. We are dealing with the early centuries of the Church's history or, to be more precise, with the third century. It is said that he was a boy who came regularly to the Catacombs of St Calixtus here in Rome and took his special Christian duties very seriously.
He had great love for the Eucharist and various hints lead us to conclude that he was presumably an acolyte, that is, an altar se ...
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