Welcome to Form Now. My name is Dr. Ben Acres, and I'm the Executive Director of Formed.

Joining me today is a colleague and a friend, Dr. Jim Prothrow, our newest hire here at the Augustine Institute Graduate School of Theology.

And what we've been doing, this is the third of three sessions, we've been following the readings that the church gives to us on the Sundays.

So we've been following the Sunday second reading. The second reading is coming from St. Paul's

letter to the Philippians. And the letter to the Philippians is an incredible book, as all the letters

of St. Paul are. I named actually one of my sons, Paul, because I just had such a great devotion

to this apostle, this great apostle of the church. And in the letter to the Philippians, Paul, because I just had such a great devotion to this apostle, this great apostle

of the church. And in the letter to the Philippians, Paul is writing a letter to a group of Christians

and they're living in a Roman colony. The Philippians are special to his heart because this is the

first church that he founded in Europe. You can read this about this in Acts 16.

There's a great stories about what happens when he founds the church here.

He's co-writing this with Timothy, another kind of famous partner in the gospel.

And that's one of the themes that I think you've been noticing if you've been reading along in Philippians with the church is partnership,

Coignania, working together for the

good of loving God and loving one another. This is one of the themes that comes out in

Philippians, along with the theme of encouragement, of Paul's writing a letter to his friends.

And he's encouraging them to grow in the Christian life, encouraging them to put on

the mind of Christ. This is one of the themes that you discussed earlier in your study with Dr. Gray.

And we're going to be closing out our study on Philippians. Of course, we can't go through the whole book

as much as we'd like to. And maybe if you put in the comments that you want a whole, youout study on Philippians, I encourage you to do that. We do have a Lexio series on Philippians that's taught by Dr. Gray. It's on form, so just put in Philippians or Alexio, and it'll pop up. But what we're going to be discussing today is Chapter 4 of Philippians, and Paul's bringing it all home. He's bringing the themes home that he's introduced earlier in the letter. And so, Dr. Prothro, give us the context. Where are we, when we get to the readings this last Sunday that we just heard? Sure. So we're now in Philippians 4, and particularly we're starting in verse 10, all the way to the end today, today.

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