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Amen.

Here's our topic.

Our topic is out of Philippians 1, the long introduction that we'll begin in chapter 1,

verse 2.

And the theme that we're looking at is loneliness.

And Paul is a guy who is experiencing at the time of the writing of this book, profound

loneliness in jail, all by himself, separated from his friends, writing them a letter, speaking

about how much he misses them, how much he has enjoyed them, and how he may never see

them again.

By virtue of the fact that he is facing the potential of being put to death in prison.

And his issue of loneliness really is interesting because in our day, it's essentially an epidemic.

The people are disconnected, isolated lonely.

And that's just the way the world is.

And so statistically, we'll look at a few different ways that this bears itself out culturally.

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