Calvary Church is dedicated to doctrine, and we want you to experience the life change that comes

from knowing God's word and applying it to your life. So we explain the Bible verse by verse,

every chapter, every book, this is expound. We took two weeks to go through Philippians chapter one. I can state right at the beginning

that I'd love to make it through chapter two in one setting, but I'm not going to even go there.

We just do verse by verse until we have plumbed the depths enough to get what we think is the sense

and make application to our lives and then move on.

Daniel Manville was a guy who was in prison for three and a half years on some kind of a manslaughter

charge.

While he was in prison, he decided to go to law school, took courses that they offered

there and online, and he passed the bar exam, and today he is a professor at Michigan State University

teaching law.

I mean, he really learned his lesson.

Prison was profitable for him.

He got an education, passed the test, got the degree, and now is training up other students. Another guy by the name of Ken

Rushing was in prison for seven years on drug charges. During that time, he got his real estate license,

studied real estate development and law, got out of prison, became a civic leader, and a

philanthropist. So in both of these cases, prison worked out pretty well for those two guys.

They made the most of it. They became, made it a profitable experience and used it to bless others.

Paul the Apostle was also in prison for a number of years, a couple of years in Caesarea by

the sea, a couple of years in Rome, then he was released, and then he got re-arrested, and

he was arrested several times. But while he was in prison in Rome, he wrote four books.

He wrote the book of Ephesians and Philippians and Colossians and Philemon.

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