Rubbish to Righteousness with Ben Carruthers

Where do you find your joy? Is it in delicious food, exciting vacations, meaningful relationships, or good health? These sources of happiness seem natural—but what happens when they're taken away?

In this eye-opening exploration of Philippians 3, Ben Carruthers guides us through the Apostle Paul's radical perspective on joy. Writing from a Roman prison, Paul makes a shocking claim: all his impressive credentials and accomplishments—his perfect religious pedigree, his authority, his blameless law-keeping—he now considers "rubbish" compared to knowing Christ.

What makes this perspective even more remarkable is Paul's life after coming to Christ. Rather than prosperity and comfort, he experienced beatings, imprisonments, shipwrecks, hunger, and constant danger. Yet from these circumstances came a letter overflowing with references to joy.

This apparent contradiction reveals the heart of the gospel message. True joy isn't dependent on favorable circumstances or personal achievements. It persists through hardship because it's rooted in who we are in Christ, not what we do. Our righteousness isn't earned through a spiritual checklist—it's a gift received through relationship.

Ben reminds us that while earthly sources of joy can disappear in an instant, the joy found in Christ remains constant. Through powerful personal stories and biblical insights, he demonstrates that God established relationship before rules, desiring connection above compliance.

Listen as we discover the freedom of finding our worth in Christ alone, and learn how to experience "Joy Anyway"—a joy that persists regardless of circumstances because it's grounded in an unshakable relationship with the God of the universe who desires to know you.

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