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LIVING IN AUTHENTICITY
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PHILIPPIANS
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Talk to God about your struggles and pain. Ask Him to open
your eyes to what He may be doing through those hard things.
God can handle our hurt and even our anger. He wants you to
pour out your whole heart to Him.
Amen.
WEEK 1 Day 3
READ PHILIPPIANS 1:1-2
Many years ago, one of my friends sent me a beautiful little book out
of the blue: The Art of the Handwritten Note.14 Those delightful pages
taught me that the structure of our words means something, and so
does the way we open and end a letter. I think Paul would have liked
that book. He was all about purposefully placing words in a greeting,
his words dripping with power and intentionality.
In the opening of this letter in Philippians 1:1-4, Paul isn’t simply
greeting the church. Yes, technically that is what he’s doing, but he’s
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