Day 25 – Philippians 3:12-16
12-14 I’m not saying that I have this all together, that I have it made. But I am well on my way, reaching out for Christ, who has so…
Day 24 – Philippians 3:7-11
7-9 The very credentials these people are waving around as something special, I’m tearing up and throwing out with the trash—along with everything else I used to take credit…
Day 23 – Philippians 3:1-6
1 And that’s about it, friends. Be glad in God! I don’t mind repeating what I have written in earlier letters, and I hope you don’t mind hearing it…
Day 22 – Philippians 2:28-30
28 So I am all the more anxious to send him back to you, for I know you will be glad to see him, and then I will not…
Day 21 – Philippians 2:25-27
25-27 But for right now, I’m dispatching Epaphroditus, my good friend and companion in my work. You sent him to help me out; now I’m sending him to help…
Day 20 – Philippians 2:17-24
17-18 Even if I am executed here and now, I’ll rejoice in being an element in the offering of your faith that you make on Christ’s altar, a part…
Day 19 – Philippians 2:14-16
14-16 Do everything readily and cheerfully—no bickering, no second-guessing allowed! Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people…
Day 18 – Philippians 2:12-13
12-13 What I’m getting at, friends, is that you should simply keep on doing what you’ve done from the beginning. When I was living among you, you lived in…
Day 17 – Philippians 2:9-11
9-11 Because of that obedience, God lifted him high and honored him far beyond anyone or anything, ever, so that all created beings in heaven and on earth—even those…
Day 16 – Philippians 2:5-8
5-8 Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn’t think so much of himself that he had to cling…
Day 15 – Philippians 2:1-4
1-4 If you’ve gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit…
Day 14 – Philippians 1:27-30
27-30 Meanwhile, live in such a way that you are a credit to the Message of Christ. Let nothing in your conduct hang on whether I come or not.…
Day 13 – Philippians 1:22-26
22-26 As long as I’m alive in this body, there is good work for me to do. If I had to choose right now, I hardly know which I’d…
Day 12 – Philippians 1:18-21
18-21 So how am I to respond? I’ve decided that I really don’t care about their motives, whether mixed, bad, or indifferent. Every time one of them opens his…
Day 11 – Philippians 1:15-17
15-17 It’s true that some here preach Christ because with me out of the way, they think they’ll step right into the spotlight. But the others do it with…
Day 10 – Philippians 1:12-14
12-14I want to report to you, friends, that my imprisonment here has had the opposite of its intended effect. Instead of being squelched, the Message has actually prospered. All…
Day 9 – Philippians 1:9-11
9-11So this is my prayer: that your love will flourish and that you will not only love much but well. Learn to love appropriately. You need to use your…
Day 8 – Philippians 1:7-8
7-8It’s not at all fanciful for me to think this way about you. My prayers and hopes have deep roots in reality. You have, after all, stuck with me…
Day 7 – Philippians 1:3-6
3-6Every time you cross my mind, I break out in exclamations of thanks to God. Each exclamation is a trigger to prayer. I find myself praying for you with…
Day 6 – Matthew 3:1-2
1 In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea 2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” (Matthew 3:1-2 –…