People today are consumed by the passionate pursuit of happiness. Self-help books, motivational speakers, and advice columnists claim to offer the key to happiness, but for many people the door remains locked. Unable to control their circumstances, they find themselves instead controlled by their circumstances. When their job, relationship, house, or church fails to make them happy, they dump it and and look for a new one. But, on the merry-go-round of life, they can never quite seem to reach the brass ring.

But if happiness, the fleeting feeling of exhilaration, is elusive; joy is not. Biblical joy, the settled conviction that God sovereignly controls the events of life for believers' good and His glory, is available to all who obey Him.

Mary Thomas will help you see that despite circumstances, joy permeates Philippians so much that it may be called "The Epistle of Joy."

Thursdays | October 8 - 29, 2026 | 10:00 AM | Room #206