Epistle to the Philippians

1:1; Col. 1:1).” Many have suggested that Paul could not have been the author of Ephesians for various reasons. Arthur Patzia, in his commentary on Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians, notes the following: “Of the factors that raise question about the Pauline authorship of Ephesians, there is, first of all, the vocabulary of the epistle. About ninety words and phrases in Ephesians, including such things as “the devil,” “in the heavenly realms,” and “the One he loves” (as a title for Christ),…

He wrote more books than anyone else did in the New Testament. Paul wrote 8 books of the bible including: Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Colossians, Philippians, Philemon, and 1 Thessalonians. We can find the most information about Paul’s life in his epistles and in Acts. Paul is persistent, patient, courageous, humble, and forgiving, all traits that make him a great prophet. He never stopped preaching and serving God, and did whatever the Lord told him…

much like the story of Balaam and Balak in Numbers 22-24, when you behave righteously, those who may wish you ill will be unable to curse you or denounce you. The life God calls us to cannot be truthfully vilified. Paul faced this issue within the Philippian community. Later…

Understanding the inspiration of Scripture is vital to understanding how the Bible that we have came into being. There are several different theories as to how the Bible was inspired, such as the dynamic and verbal theories. According to Millard J. Erickson in his book, “Introducing Christian Doctrine”, the dynamic theory “emphasizes the combination of divine and human elements in the process of inspiration and of the writing of the Bible”, while the verbal theory “insists that the Holy Spirit’s…

He is the quintessential writer of the New Testament with fourteen letters and epistles being ascribed to him. With the exception of Jesus, Paul was the most influential preacher of the Gospel. Yet, as Hendricks contends, Paul’s shifted Jesus’ ministry from collective consciousness to personal piety and deliverance from sin (Hendricks…

“The Envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.” The most egregious emotion that proceeds from limited good is envy (φθόνον) In the New Testament it occurs a total of nine times. It occurs four times in the Pauline epistles. Paul uses the term to refer to those who are walking after the flesh (First Cor. 3:3), those who will not inherit the kingdom of God (Gal. 5:21) and in reference to false teachers and believers. What is envy? Classical rhetoricians and philosophers…

Syria. Paul was a physician and historian (d 84 in Greece). Luke wrote about Paul in Acts 19. Paul had written approximately a third of the New Testament, which includes the thirteen epistles. The letters, on which our context is based, can be found in the Prison Epistles that consist of Colossians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Philemon. Ephesians is…

through a lot of pain and agony but God had is hand upon him the entire time. Most scholars agree that the Apostle Paul wrote the book of Ephesians, Colossians, Philemon, and Philippians in the majority of the time he was in prison. “It was in 60-62 AD during Paul’s Roman imprisonment that he wrote what we call the prison epistles” (Bucknell, 2014). During that time, Paul was in some type of imprisonment, some may call it house arrest and…

Martin Luther depicted Roman epistle as “truly the most important piece in the New Testament,” “the purest Gospel,” and he highly esteemed the letter insomuch that he wrote, “It is well worth a Christian’s while not only to memorize if word for word but also to occupy himself with it daily, as though it were the daily bread of the soul.” Foundational, vital, Christian subthemes are within Romans that are under the overarching theme of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. One of these themes is one that…

In the American church faithful ministry has been traded for models more akin to modern business than biblical ministry. The desire for a more authentic expression of Christian faith has resulted in an overflow of passion to see the American church change. Consequently, a call has sounded for a return to a more faithful approach to ministry that rejects trendy models to follow the example of Christ Jesus. This call has become a ministry movement known as missional ministry. Missional ministry…