Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen

To all the graduates at Eastern University, together with their overseers--family, friends, university faculty, and administrative deacons: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! My text is from the opening chapter of Paul's letter to the Philippians, written around AD 61, which he begins with a somewhat similar greeting. What I want to highlight from the text is Paul's statement in 1:6: "I am confident that the One who began a good work…