Aug 23, 2026 · 55 min · 11 segments
How do we find peace when relationships fall apart? Paul addressed a rift between two believers, offering timeless truths for lasting unity in the church. In this message from Philippians 4, Pastor…
Philip MillerHost
Tim StaffordPanelist
It's a chapter that contains several well-known, popular, even famous verses, what we could call coffee cup verses, right? You know the ones? Coffee cup verses, these are verses that are on your Christian cards.
They're on wall art or calendars, throw pillows, t-shirts, your social media posts that you send around online, right? And there's a number of them right here in chapter 4.
For example, in chapter 4, verse 4, We see here it says, "'Rejoice in the Lord always.
Again I say, rejoice.'" Or chapter 4, verse 6, "'Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.'" Or chapter 4, verse 8.
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there's anything of excellence, if anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
And next week we're going to see the coffee cup verse of all coffee cup verses.
Now, the problem with coffee cup verses, of course, is that you have to fit them on a coffee cup, right? There's not a lot of room on there.
And so what you have to do is lift a verse out of context and slap it in isolation on the coffee cup, right? You have to divorce it from its settings.
And because so many of these verses are coffee cup verses, we tend to read sections of Scripture like this as a collection of various unrelated life principles.
Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are written in the book of life.
It's a chapter that contains several well-known, popular, even famous verses, what we could call coffee cup verses, right? You know the ones? Coffee cup verses, these are verses that are on your Christian cards.
They're on wall art or calendars, throw pillows, t-shirts, your social media posts that you send around online, right? And there's a number of them right here in chapter 4.
For example, in chapter 4, verse 4, We see here it says, "'Rejoice in the Lord always.
Again I say, rejoice.'" Or chapter 4, verse 6, "'Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.'" Or chapter 4, verse 8.
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there's anything of excellence, if anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
And next week we're going to see the coffee cup verse of all coffee cup verses.
Now, the problem with coffee cup verses, of course, is that you have to fit them on a coffee cup, right? There's not a lot of room on there.
And so what you have to do is lift a verse out of context and slap it in isolation on the coffee cup, right? You have to divorce it from its settings.
And because so many of these verses are coffee cup verses, we tend to read sections of Scripture like this as a collection of various unrelated life principles.
Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are written in the book of life.
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