Hey church family if you've got your Bible I hope you do it's Devo Tom we're going to be in the

in the book of Philippians what an epic week this last week we had it's saturated and I sure do hope

that you heard from the Lord and you said here I am send me whether that was to send you in

prayer for missionaries around the world whether that was send you send me, whether that was to send you in prayer for missionaries around the world,

whether that was send you to go, or whether that was to send you to be radically generous

to fund the advancement of God's kingdom. And last week, on Sunday, I talked on hope and kind of

did an overview of the book of Philippians,

talking about how Paul's hope in jail,

as he is writing to the church at Philippi,

how hope preaches and apparently the way he lived

and the way he spoke,

even though he was in terrible circumstances,

he had this hope in Jesus, and it led all the jailers and all the people of Caesar's house to the Lord.

And so since I did just a bit of an overview this past weekend, I thought for our Devo time going forward, which I don't know how long these things will last, but I thought we would just do a deep dive into the book of Philippians.

Now, the book of Philippians is one of, as you heard last week from Jeff Copp, our chaplain in

the prisons. It's one of the prison epistles, meaning that Paul wrote this letter from

jail to the church at Philippine.

And what's crazy about it is he will talk all through this about where he places his hope

and where he places his confidence, that he does not place his confidence in his circumstances,

but he places his confidence, his hope, his trust, his faith, in his savior.

And another thing that you were going to see here

is the love of a pastor in his church. So if we'll pick it up, we're going to do the first

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