Sunday’s Coming

Good news for whom? (Philippians 2:5-11)

What heals me may harm another.

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These days it can be difficult to know how best to preach and teach the way of Jesus Paul describes in Philippians 2. Is it still a way worth following? Or is it a relic that has been so compromised by misuse that it is best left behind?