Smythe Street Church

What are you aiming at in life? What gives you hope? In Philippians 3, the Apostle Paul encourages us to anchor our hope in the promise of Christ’s coming kingdom. Following the example of others who have put their hope there is where we find joy.

What are you counting on to make you right with God? Your past? Your performance? Your morality? This week, we dig into where Paul explains why everything he once trusted became “loss” compared to the surpassing value of knowing Jesus…and why that changes everything.

What God has done on the inside is to come out of us on the outside. Pastor Chad looks at the second half of Philippians 2, where Paul teaches us to find joy our shared mission and purpose, even in the face of adversity.

What attitude helps us to find Joy in everyday life? In Philippians 2, we discover that Jesus demonstrates how giving is better than grasping at power and serving leads to true life.

When life is busy, complicated, or even hard, how can we find joy? Join us this summer as we journey through Paul’s letter to the church in Phillipi, known as his ‘epistle of joy’.

What is joy and where do we find it? Join us this summer as we explore Paul’s “Letter of Joy” to the Philippians.

We live in a world telling us to follow our hearts, trust ourselves, and satisfy every appetite… but where does that path really lead? Discover why Paul’s final words in Romans point us to a deeper truth that can truly satisfy, strengthen, and unite us.

“My dad is stronger than your dad!”. Did you ever say that as a kid? In Romans 15, Paul is talking about conflict, disagreement, and strength. What if the Bible gave us a different perspective on strength and how it’s meant to be used?

You may have noticed that Christians often disagree on big questions: alcohol, the end times, politics and the list goes on. In Romans 14, Pastor Chad unpacks wisdom for us in Paul’s addressing a major conflict in his day.

How is a follower of Jesus to relate to government? What if our leaders are not Christians, or are opposed to the gospel? In Romans 13 we explored these questions as we continued our series, ‘Walking Through Romans’.