Scripture Text: Philippians 1:3-11 and Acts 16:6-34

Bryan Buck

Quotes for Reflection

Eugene Peterson, Working the Angles

The biblical fact is that there are no successful churches. There are, instead, communities of sinners, gathered before God week after week in towns and villages all over the world.

Ralph Ellison, Interview on Invisible Man, 1974

I think most of us Americans are challenged, to be very, very conscious of where we are and that’s not an easy thing to do, and I do believe that knowing where we are, has a lot to do with our knowing who we are.

N.T. Wright, Acts for Everyone

We sometimes think it would be nice if life were not complicated, but it is, and the complexit ...