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Podcast: FBC CTX Growing in Grace Podcast
Episode: The Blessing of Refreshing (Philemon 4-7)
Description: ββ¦the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.βPaul wrote a letter to Philemon during his first imprisonment in Rome, perhaps around 60-61 AD. Out of the four prison epistles, Philemon is without question the most personal.Paul had won Philemon to Christ during his third missionary journey while he was evangelizing Ephesus. Even though Philemon was from Colossae, he must have traveled to Ephesus where he heard the transforming message of the gospel through the Apostle.While being held captive in Rome, Paul met Onesimus, a runaway slave from Colossae, who le...