{"id":5683,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/whats-to-be-happy-about\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:01","slug":"whats-to-be-happy-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/whats-to-be-happy-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s To Be Happy About?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in Philippians series.     Purpose in life.       Philippians 1:1-6<\/p>\n<p>                           =========================<br \/>\n                           WHAT&#8217;S TO BE HAPPY ABOUT?<br \/>\n                           =========================<\/p>\n<p>     I. Introduction to series on Philippians.<br \/>\n         A. Paul in prison.<br \/>\n         B. Writes to young church in Greece.<br \/>\n         C. Focus is on Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>    II. A heartfelt prayer.<br \/>\n         A. Almost all of Paul&#8217;s letters begin with a prayer.<br \/>\n         B. He has wonderful ____________ of their church.     Acts 16:14,34<br \/>\n         C. Joy is his predominant feeling.<\/p>\n<p>   III. Side by side.<br \/>\n         A. Paul was happy because Christianity did not depend on him alone.<br \/>\n         B. Two primary meanings:  _____________ and _____________.<\/p>\n<p>    IV. Confidence in the future.<br \/>\n         A. Paul sees God at work in their lives.<br \/>\n         B. The end product is someone who perfectly reflects Jesus.<br \/>\n         C. We can be confident &#8211; but not dogmatic.<\/p>\n<p>     V. What is the guiding purpose of YOUR life?<\/p>\n<p>                                                                         #4252<\/p>\n<p> *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in Philippians series. Purpose in life. Philippians 1:1-6 ========================= WHAT&#8217;S TO BE HAPPY ABOUT? ========================= I. Introduction to series on Philippians. A. Paul in prison. B. Writes to young church in Greece. C. Focus is on Jesus. II. A heartfelt prayer. A. Almost all of Paul&#8217;s letters begin with a prayer. B. He has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1259,1112,2241],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}