The Preaching of the Cross
The Preaching of the Cross is the daily weekday radio ministry of Pastor James W. Knox, featuring in-depth, expository Bible teaching.
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Philippians (Lesson 25)
Every day we’re trained to build our own name, defend our own pride, and demand our own due. Philippians 2 cuts straight through that instinct and puts a different mindset in front of us: the mind that was also in Christ Jesus, a life of humili...
Philippians (Lesson 24)
A lot of people speak confidently about God until they get even a glimpse of His holiness. We’re continuing our Philippians study in 2:10-11, where Scripture says every knee will bow at the name of Jesus and every tongue will confess that Jesus...
Philippians (Lesson 23)
Every knee will bow. Not as a metaphor, not as a tradition, but as a certainty. We open Philippians 2:10-11 and slow down long enough to feel the weight of what God says about Jesus Christ: universal submission, universal confession, and a glor...
Philippians (Lesson 22)
One name outlasts every headline, every legacy, and every empire. We walk through Philippians 2:9-11 and slow down on the moment where the text turns from Christ’s suffering to His exaltation: God the Father highly exalts Jesus Christ and gives...
Philippians (Lesson 21)
Pride has a way of disguising itself as “discernment,” “standards,” or even “self respect,” and then it quietly drains the joy out of our homes, our churches, and our friendships. We open Philippians 2 and follow Paul’s call to one mind, one lo...
Philippians (Lesson 20)
God didn’t “almost” save you. Philippians 2 shows Jesus Christ stepping down, on purpose, from eternal glory to the brutal shame of the cross and it forces a question we can’t dodge: what does real humility actually look like?We open up...
Philippians (Lesson 19)
Self-centered faith promises happiness but it can’t deliver joy. We open Philippians 2 and follow the Bible’s logic all the way down to the places it stings: full joy grows out of self-denial, self-sacrifice, and a mind governed by Jesus Christ...
Philippians (Lesson 18)
Philippians 2:1-11 hits like a mountain peak because it refuses to let the gospel stay theoretical. We read the passage, then slow down to ask what it demands of us in real relationships: how we speak, how we serve, and what we do when pride st...
Philippians (Lesson 17)
Time is slipping by faster than we like to admit, and that reality raises a blunt question: what are we doing with the days we have? Brother James turns to Philippians 1:27 and presses the issue where it gets personal. “Let your conversation be...
Philippians (Lesson 16)
One line in Philippians 1:19 stops us in our tracks: Paul asks for “the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,” a title for the Holy Spirit that appears only once in the entire Bible. We take that phrase seriously and follow it wherever it leads...
Philippians (Lesson 15)
Some days your body feels fine, the bills are paid, and life is calm and yet something inside you still aches. We dig into that tension with Brother James on the Preaching of the Cross Radio Broadcast, following the Bible’s plain answer: the sa...
Philippians (Lesson 14)
“For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” isn’t a slogan for a poster, it’s a line that forces a decision about what we love most. We’re deep in a verse-by-verse Bible study of Philippians 1, where Paul stands in a tight place between two ...
Philippians (Lesson 13)
A man sits in jail and asks for prayer, but not the kind most of us would request first. We walk through Philippians 1:20 and hear Paul’s aim with startling clarity: “that in nothing I shall be ashamed… so now also Christ shall be magnified in ...
Philippians (Lesson 12)
Paul is sitting in jail, and he still refuses to make life about himself. We walk verse by verse through Philippians 1:19-26 and listen to the apostle weigh two realities: departing to be with Christ is “far better,” yet remaining in the flesh ...
Philippians (Lesson 11)
Somebody can say the right things about Jesus and still be driven by the wrong reasons and Philippians 1:15-18 refuses to pretend otherwise. We walk line by line through Paul’s startling observation: some preach Christ out of envy, strife, and ...
Philippians (Lesson 10)
Trouble shows up without an invitation, and when it does, the question behind the question is always the same: “What is God doing with this?” We walk through Philippians 1:12-14 with Paul writing from prison and claiming something most of us wo...
Philippians (Lesson 9)
God started something in you, and He is not walking away from it. We open Philippians 1:6 and sit with its weighty promise: the Lord who began a good work in the believer will keep working until the day of Jesus Christ. Along the way, we sort o...
Philippians (Lesson 8)
A single word in Philippians 1:1 can overturn a whole lot of modern church assumptions: bishops plural, deacons plural. That’s where we start, and it quickly turns into a candid, Bible-forward look at church structure, church government, and wh...
Philippians (Lesson 7)
A lot of people can quote Philippians 1:6, but we wanted to slow down and ask what it actually means in real life: if God begins the work of salvation, who is responsible to finish it? Brother James argues that the “good work” is God’s work, no...
Philippians (Lesson 6)
A lot of people say they believe Jesus saves, then live like heaven still depends on how well they behave next week. We get why that fear sticks, and we also think the Bible speaks with surprising clarity about it. We open Philippians 1:6 and a...
Philippians (Lesson 5)
Can you actually be confident you have eternal life, or do you have to wait until the end to find out if you “measured up”? We take Philippians 1:6 head-on and follow the Bible where it leads: the God who begins a good work in a believer is the...
Philippians (Lesson 4)
Joy sounds easy to talk about until you put it in a prison cell. We’re studying Philippians, a letter built around joy and rejoicing, yet written by the apostle Paul while he’s bound. That tension forces a real question: what kind of faith prod...