Welcome to Form Now. I'm Tim Gray, president of the Augustine Institute. And joining me is Dr. Jim Prothro,

who's a professor of scripture here at the Augustin Institute. And we're going to talk about Philippians

chapter four, probably verses 1 through 11. And the reason we're covering Philippians is that we've been

hearing this passage recently in the liturgy. And so we wanted to kind of break open that word a little

bit further. And also

because, you know, usually most homilies cover the gospel. Maybe they connect it with the Old Testament,

but almost never do they want to touch upon St. Paul. Because Paul's, you know, his epistles,

you know, we're reading somebody else's mail.

And that could be difficult to explain sometimes.

So we thought we'd be worth our time to dive a little bit more into Philippians.

And before I forget, I want to remind you that on the form platform,

we have a whole Lexio Bible study on Philippians.

And so you can find that on formed. It's our Lexio Philippians.

So that's an opportunity for you to get a deeper context of the letter of St. Paul to the

Philippians, which is a really a great treasure. And it's worth really diving into. So, Jim,

let's just start off with the context of chapter four. And of course, last time we spoke about a little bit about chapter one and primarily chapter two with the hymn

to Christ that was so beautiful, the model of the mindset that the Philippians had to have in order

to have and to realize the Greek ideal of friendship. So we spoke about that last time. Now we're

moving into chapter four,

and you want to just,

this is where he's going to kind of set up some exhortation

and application for the life of the community.

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