83% of Americans claim Christianity, but would Christianity claim 83% of Americans? Paul describes a gospel that isn't average. It isn't mediocre. It isn't a "nice addition" to a good life. It is everything. "For to me to live is Christ, to die is gain."

In this week's text, a man offers David a gift. It turns out that this gift wasn't what David wanted, it and it had disastrous results.

What would you do if the preacher got arrested for preaching? Would you think it a good thing or a bad thing? Paul challenges our normal way of thinking when he tells the Philippians what God was really up to...

As Paul writes to the Philippians, it is clear that he really and truly loves these people in a way that is foreign to most church members. What did he know that we don't?

What happens to people who put their trust in people? Without exception, they fail.

Paul's time in Philippi turned the world upside down for Lydia, a jailer, and many others. Today, we get to witness the transforming power of the gospel through the letter he sent them while sitting in a Roman jail.

A tale of defection, revenge, and politics, as David continues his ascendancy to the throne.

Sometimes the most important thing we can do is simply to hang in there.

The battle for the kingship continues.

He who kneels before God will bow to no man. Consider five stories about people who were--or wren't--bold before God--and how it changed their lives.