Hello my friends. I hope you are well in this world and I know that many of you

undoubtedly are being touched in a variety of ways by the COVID-19 situation. I am praying for you. I am

lifting you up to the Lord asking him to give you endurance and hope and

strength. Even if some of you are grieving, I realize that every number on the death toll that we see in the news and on various websites represents a person who has passed from this life and an extended family and set of friends who are grieving

the loss of that person. This is a very real, a very human situation that we're all in.

And let's not lose sight of that. Let's pray for the people

who are on the very edge of this situation being impacted in the dramatic ways that this

virus is causing our world to be touched. I want to change focus here for the

next few episodes. I want to look at one of my favorite books in all of the

New Testament. This is Philippians chapter two and we're not going to

go verse by verse through the entire book as we have in the past. We're just going to look at

one paragraph, one section of the book simply because it has been one of the most powerful

passages in my own life. This is a passage that my wife and I often would use when

we do marital counseling or premarital

counseling with couples even though it's not quote-unquote a marriage passage.

It's one of those passages that applies across the board to us as believers and I'm talking

about Philippians chapter 2 beginning with first 1 going through verse 11.

This is a beautiful passage that describes for us the attitude Jesus himself had in coming

to the earth and then applies it to us as ones who are trying to be Christ-like.

And so I am ready to just dive right in.

Let's look at Philippians chapter 2, verse number 1.

So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit,

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