Coffee With Phil

Not that long ago, on a walk, I asked God a question I wasn't sure I should ask — whether there was something new He wanted to say over this season of my life. What I heard back wasn't what I expected. He didn't give me an answer. He gave me a word to go study: faithfulness . The Hebrew word for it, specifically. So that's what I've been doing. This series is the fruit of...

Not that long ago, on a walk, I asked God a question I wasn't sure I should ask — whether there was something new He wanted to say over this season of my life. What I heard back wasn't what I expected. He didn't give me an answer. He gave me a word to go study: faithfulness . The Hebrew word for it, specifically. So that's what I've been doing. This series is the fruit of...

Not that long ago, on a walk, I asked God a question I wasn't sure I should ask — whether there was something new He wanted to say over this season of my life. What I heard back wasn't what I expected. He didn't give me an answer. He gave me a word to go study: faithfulness . The Hebrew word for it, specifically. So that's what I've been doing. This series is the fruit of...

Series:  The Heaviness of Hope (HoH) Hope is a paradox. We have taught people that hope is light. A helium balloon. A sunrise. Something that lifts. But anyone who has carried an unanswered prayer for years knows this is not the full picture. Biblical hope is often something you drag behind you on the days you cannot carry it. Abraham waited decades. Joseph lay on a prison floor. Hannah wept so op...

Hope is a paradox. We have taught people that hope is light. A helium balloon. A sunrise. Something that lifts. But anyone who has carried an unanswered prayer for years knows this is not the full picture. Biblical hope is often something you drag behind you on the days you cannot carry it. Abraham waited decades. Joseph lay on a prison floor. Hannah wept so openly the priest thought she was drunk...

Series:  The Heaviness of Hope (HoH) Hope is a paradox. We have taught people that hope is light. A helium balloon. A sunrise. Something that lifts. But anyone who has carried an unanswered prayer for years knows this is not the full picture. Biblical hope is often something you drag behind you on the days you cannot carry it. Abraham waited decades. Joseph lay on a prison floor. Hannah wept so op...

Series:  The Heaviness of Hope (HoH) Hope is a paradox. We have taught people that hope is light. A helium balloon. A sunrise. Something that lifts. But anyone who has carried an unanswered prayer for years knows this is not the full picture. Biblical hope is often something you drag behind you on the days you cannot carry it. Abraham waited decades. Joseph lay on a prison floor. Hannah wept so op...

Series:  The Heaviness of Hope (HoH) Hope is a paradox. We have taught people that hope is light. A helium balloon. A sunrise. Something that lifts. But anyone who has carried an unanswered prayer for years knows this is not the full picture. Biblical hope is often something you drag behind you on the days you cannot carry it. Abraham waited decades. Joseph lay on a prison floor. Hannah wept so op...

Series:  The Heaviness of Hope (HoH) Hope is a paradox. We have taught people that hope is light. A helium balloon. A sunrise. Something that lifts. But anyone who has carried an unanswered prayer for years knows this is not the full picture. Biblical hope is often something you drag behind you on the days you cannot carry it. Abraham waited decades. Joseph lay on a prison floor. Hannah wept so op...

Series:  The Heaviness of Hope (HoH) Hope is a paradox. We have taught people that hope is light. A helium balloon. A sunrise. Something that lifts. But anyone who has carried an unanswered prayer for years knows this is not the full picture. Biblical hope is often something you drag behind you on the days you cannot carry it. Abraham waited decades. Joseph lay on a prison floor. Hannah wept so op...

Series:  The Heaviness of Hope (HoH) Hope is a paradox. We have taught people that hope is light. A helium balloon. A sunrise. Something that lifts. But anyone who has carried an unanswered prayer for years knows this is not the full picture. Biblical hope is often something you drag behind you on the days you cannot carry it. Abraham waited decades. Joseph lay on a prison floor. Hannah wept so op...

Series:  The Heaviness of Hope (HoH) Hope is a paradox. We have taught people that hope is light. A helium balloon. A sunrise. Something that lifts. But anyone who has carried an unanswered prayer for years knows this is not the full picture. Biblical hope is often something you drag behind you on the days you cannot carry it. Abraham waited decades. Joseph lay on a prison floor. Hannah wept so op...

Series:  The Heaviness of Hope (HoH) Hope is a paradox. We have taught people that hope is light. A helium balloon. A sunrise. Something that lifts. But anyone who has carried an unanswered prayer for years knows this is not the full picture. Biblical hope is often something you drag behind you on the days you cannot carry it. Abraham waited decades. Joseph lay on a prison floor. Hannah wept so op...

Series:  The Heaviness of Hope (HoH) Hope is a paradox. We have taught people that hope is light. A helium balloon. A sunrise. Something that lifts. But anyone who has carried an unanswered prayer for years knows this is not the full picture. Biblical hope is often something you drag behind you on the days you cannot carry it. Abraham waited decades. Joseph lay on a prison floor. Hannah wept so op...

Series:  The Heaviness of Hope (HoH) Hope is a paradox. We have taught people that hope is light. A helium balloon. A sunrise. Something that lifts. But anyone who has carried an unanswered prayer for years knows this is not the full picture. Biblical hope is often something you drag behind you on the days you cannot carry it. Abraham waited decades. Joseph lay on a prison floor. Hannah wept so op...

This episode is a one-oof, not part of a series, but no less important! In this episode Phil speaks candidly about the opposition we sometimes have to face from those who are close to us.  Jesus teaches us in Matthew 18:15-17 to keep short accounts, to speak with people when we feel disconnected, and to work with love and grace to seek reconciliation.  But what when that fails? There's a real...

Life isn’t supposed to be complicated. We make it complicated when we drift from what matters most. In this podcast series, Phil focuses on areas of our live that we have made complicated in a way that God never intended.  It's abrupt, but then that might be what you need. Clarity brings peace. Complexity breeds chaos. Come back to what matters most. This week, have a think about your FAITHFU...

Life isn’t supposed to be complicated. We make it complicated when we drift from what matters most. In this podcast series, Phil focuses on areas of our live that we have made complicated in a way that God never intended.  It' abrupt, but then that might be what you need. Clarity brings peace. Complexity breeds chaos. Come back to what matters most. This week, simplify your FUTURE YOU. Here&a...

Life isn’t supposed to be complicated. We make it complicated when we drift from what matters most. In this podcast series, Phil focuses on areas of our live that we have made complicated in a way that God never intended.  It' abrupt, but then that might be what you need. Clarity brings peace. Complexity breeds chaos. Come back to what matters most. This week, simplify your FULFILMENT. Here&a...

Life isn’t supposed to be complicated. We make it complicated when we drift from what matters most. In this podcast series, Phil focuses on areas of our live that we have made complicated in a way that God never intended.  It' abrupt, but then that might be what you need. Clarity brings peace. Complexity breeds chaos. Come back to what matters most. This week, simplify your FOCUS. https://phi...

Life isn’t supposed to be complicated. We make it complicated when we drift from what matters most. In this podcast series, Phil focuses on areas of our live that we have made complicated in a way that God never intended.  It' abrupt, but then that might be what you need. Clarity brings peace. Complexity breeds chaos. Come back to what matters most. This week, simplify your FAMILY. If you wan...

Life isn’t supposed to be complicated. We make it complicated when we drift from what matters most. In this podcast series, Phil focuses on areas of our live that we have made complicated in a way that God never intended.  It' abrupt, but then that might be what you need. Clarity brings peace. Complexity breeds chaos. Come back to what matters most. This week, simplify your FINANCES. If you w...

Life isn’t supposed to be complicated. We make it complicated when we drift from what matters most. In this podcast series, Phil focuses on areas of our live that we have made complicated in a way that God never intended.  It' abrupt, but then that might be what you need. Clarity brings peace. Complexity breeds chaos. Come back to what matters most. This week, simplify your FAITH. https//phil...

In his current musings of faith made real and a life of faith being a life of obvious, observable, demonstrably faithful, Phil is still sounding a little different this week - squeaky voice and all. In this finale to the non-series Faith Made Real, Phil draws us into a deeper connection with the biblical truth of our God-given design. For we are His workmanship [His own master work, a work of art]...

In his current musings of faith made real and a life of faith being a life of obvious, observable, demonstrably faithful, Phil is sounding a little different this week - under the weather, you could say.  But that does not stop him calling a spade a spade, quoting Jesus, Who says: "You faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you?"  Matt 17:17. What does this mean?  How...