Overwhelmed

Beginning Sunday May 22

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Jeff Lampl

Do you ever feel overwhelmed, even imprisoned, by the hyperactivity . . .  . 

hyper-pressure, and hyper-busyness of your suburban life? You're not alone and God has help available!

On Sunday, May 22, we begin a six week series studying the book of Philippians, which will show us how to live for God while living with the pressures of suburban life.

The author of Philippians was a man named Paul, who had been on the fast track to money, power and success in law and government. On a mission as prosecuting attorney to rid his district of a Jesus cult considered disruptive to the society he was tasked with protecting, he actually had a first-hand encounter with the very same Jesus he thought had been executed. Jesus actually appeared to him and spoke to him. Suffice it today, that encounter changed his career path.

A great way to prepare for this Sunday’s message is to read Paul’s own description of his encounter with Jesus.  You can read three different accounts of it in Acts 9, Acts 22:1-22 and Galatians 1:1-2:3

He then spent the next 35 years of his life supporting himself as a tent maker so that he could travel from city to city telling people that this Jesus is not only alive but is actually now ruling the world from Heaven.  Those travels are recorded in the book of Acts beginning with chapter 13.

How then did Paul live for Christ with the enormous pressures surrounding him for the last 35 years of his life?  How would he have us live?  On Sunday we will begin to find out.

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