Ridge Life Podcast

Today we are going to look at the last 3 verses of his letter to the Philippian church. The things that he speaks about is dealing with the relationship within the body of Christ The Church and these last few words are instructions for the saints. One of the things that we have to learn is how to live together within the body of Christ. All of us who know Christ have been redeemed by Him and have...

When we think of Paul’s situation he was very content. As we just spent a couple months on contentment, Paul had just stated earlier that in whatever situation he had found himself in he had learned to be content. The verses that flow out of his contentment is this thankfulness that he expresses towards the Philippian church. One of the things that we see when we are faced with difficult circumsta...

Message on giving given by one of our Elders, Geff Fisher

Can you be content in any situation? Paul the writer of the letter to the Philippian church could. It wasn't because he was some super Christian. It was simply because he had learned the secret to being content "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" Philippians 4:13. We have been discussing contentment over the past couple weeks and now we want to put legs to what we have been stu...

Can you be content in any situation? Paul the writer of the letter to the Philippian church could. It wasn't because he was some super Christian. It was simply because he had learned the secret to being content "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" Philippians 4:13. We have been discussing contentment over the past couple weeks and now we want to put legs to what we have been stu...

Can you be content in any situation? Paul the writer of the letter to the Philippian church could. It wasn't because he was some super Christian. It was simply because he had learned the secret to being content "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" Philippians 4:13. We have been discussing contentment over the past couple weeks and now we want to put legs to what we have been stu...

Are you content? Right now are you content with the situation and where you are in life? Contentment defined according to Gods Word means to be "self-sufficient". Does your life need outside means to make you content? Paul says in Philippians 4:10-19 that he has "learned to be content" How did he learn this? What is the secret to contentment? How can we practice this secret in our lives?

The command to rejoice always should be obeyed and lived out regardless of our circumstances. We have already discussed how we act reveals what we have been thinking about, and in order for us to have peace and joy and be able to rise above our circumstances we need to be thinking rightly. In connection with that thought Paul tells us that he has modeled this and lived that out. (Vs 9) Paul picks...

Fathers Day message: Guest Speaker Todd Wilson

"Think on these things" Paul's words are a command of what we need to be thinking about in order to fulfill the command to "rejoice always". Last week we covered 4 of the 8 virtues we are to be thinking about. "whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise." As a follower of Christ we must think biblically and change our thinking in...

What do you think about? What we do reveals how we think. The command that Paul has been stressing in Philippians 4 is to "rejoice always" and within that command he tells us that we should "not be anxious about anything" but rather "pray about everything" and to "think on these things" What things? We are given 8 things that we are to be renewing our minds on in Philippians 4:8-9.

What controls your thinking? Why do you do the things that you do? What we do reveals what we think about. God's Word tells us in Philippians 4 that we need to be rejoicing always, and as we looked at last week the answer to our anxiety and peace in our hearts and minds is through proper prayer. Paul continues his thought in vs 7-8 about what we think about and how that thinking does affect the ou...

We’ve been looking at these last few things Paul is teaching in chapter 4 to the church at Philippi. Vs 6-7 talk about anxiety or worry and how to deal with it properly. All of us have had an encounter with anxiety or worry. It creeps in our lives and causes us to worry over big and little things, gnawing away at our insides. We worry about all sorts of things. We tend to think that our worries ar...

When things don't go "right" in your life, how do you respond? What relationships in your life have recently changed? How did you react? What other disappointments have you had recently? How have you reacted? Has anyone recently slandered you? How did you react? As we have been studying Philippians 4. The command is for us to "rejoice always" Last week we looked at the things that should be giving...

As we have been seeing one of the major themes throughout this book is joy, or rejoicing. I have said that we are to rejoice in spite of our circumstances. We need to find our joy in Christ not in the circumstances. The Christian life is to be one of joy, a joy that transcends the negative things in life. I believe Paul lived this out very well, as his circumstances were bleak. Paul was under hous...

One of our missionaries that we support Carlos and Barbara Barahona with Nueva Esperanza (New Hope) gave an update and spoke for us. Carlos and Barbara started the work in Honduras and have been there for 29 years. The ministry seeks to affect permanent change in the spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical lives of poor children living in Honduras. Children are given daily care and attention al...

Paul wrote in Philippians 3:10 "That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection..." The word Paul uses for power here is the word "dunamis" We get the word dynamite from this word. Christ's resurrection has great power. Power to do what?

Who are the Elders and what do they do? God's Word gives us important instructions on how a church is to be led and the purpose of having Elders and what those Elders are to be doing. Contrary to popular tradition an Elder is not a decision maker or board member. This message will cover the importance of being Biblical in the way Pleasant Ridge is led and the importance of having Biblically qualif...

Are you ready for the return of Christ? He's coming back. Paul stresses to these believers at Philippi the importance of living like a citizen of Heaven, because Jesus is coming back. When Christ returns what will happen? How will we change, what will that look like? What will it look like when Jesus rules on this earth? Are you ready for the return of Christ?

"Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us." Philippians 3:17 How's your christian walk going? After Paul has just told us about the prize that he is pressing on towards which is holiness and to be like Christ, Paul is now stressing the importance to imitate or to follow the example of those who do walk in holiness. Are you walking...

Last week we saw that Paul made mention of a different resurrection for the believers. All the dead in Christ will be resurrected but Paul said he wanted to attain the out-resurrection. As we saw the out resurrection is a further seperation of believers who will be separated to a place of honor and service in the coming kingdom. These are believers who have sown much in the kingdom, they are the o...

Are you ready for resurrection? A couple weeks ago we looked at how the believer in Christ grows and Pauls last statement in vs 11 talks about the future resurrection. Every living human being will face eternity. Those that know Christ that have fallen asleep will be resurrected in Christs likeness. All those who are alive and remain when Christ returns will be changed in a moment in a twinkling o...

Visiting Missionary Jude Souza

How do we grow in Christ? Paul in his defense of what a true believer is tells us in Philippians 3:10-11. Pauls says "That I may know Him..." To know Christ means to know Him experientially, or to know Him personally or to know Him by personal involvement with. Our growth in Christ is one of the most important experiences that believers should have. What does this growth look like and how does it...

The verses that we are going to look at today come right on the heels of this idea of people who were promoting the outward, the flesh, and the religious externals to gain grace with God. What we’re going to see is Paul saying he’s had it all and lost it all so that he could gain Christ. There is a larger picture here at work other than salvation and that is having Christ as our all for everything...