This sermon covers Philippians 1: 1-6 and II Corinthians 5 1-7.

Barbara Brockhoft tells us that a few years ago in DeKalb County down in Georgia, a school had a mock drill as a part of the Civil Defense program. In the test drill there was a fourth grade boy who was chosen to be "hit". He was listed as one of the casualties. In the mock test he was struck down by glass, debris and rubble. An ambulance was to be called to the elementary school where the test was conducted, and at the call of the ambulance, the test timing was to begin.

The first problem arose when someone slipped up and nobody got around to calling the ambulance. Time went by and the little boy was wounded and laid on a stretcher and there he waited to be rescued, but still no one came to his aid.

Then someone saw to the…