You've probably seen it: on a coffee mug, a bumper sticker, maybe cross-stitched on a pillow. "Choose joy." But what if that phrase is actually setting people up to fail?

Nearly two thousand years before "joy" became a slogan, a man named Paul wrote one of the most joy-filled letters in the New Testament, from a prison cell, facing a possible death sentence. He wasn't performing happiness. He'd found something more profound, something that didn't depend on his circumstances at all.

In this first message of our new series through Philippians, pastor Becky Fitch looks at how a small, unlikely community in an ancient Roman city, made up of the wealthy and the enslaved, citizens and immigrants, found a kind of joy that couldn't be taken from them. 
If forced positivity has worn you out and you want to know what real joy actually looks like, this one's for you.