I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified. 1 Corinthians 9:27 Paul is saying having done all that training, I don’t want to lose out on …
Bible Gem 394 – Being Self Aware (1 Cor 9:27)
Bible Gem 393 – The Hidden Sport: Keeping the body suppressed (1 Cor 9:27)
I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified. 1 Corinthians 9:27 So what is the other sport that is buried a little deeper? Have you worked …
Bible Gem 392 – Boxing, Beating the Air (1 Cor 9:26b)
1 Corinthians 9:26 (NLT) I am not just shadowboxing. (ESV) I do not box as one beating the air. (GNB) that is why I am like a boxer who does not waste his punches. (EMTV) Therefore I run thus: not as without a goal, thus …
Bible Gem 391 – Running (1 Cor 9:24)
Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win! All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal …
Bible Gem 390 – Gaining the prize (1 Cor 9:24-25)
Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win! All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal …
Bible Gem 389 – The Corinthian or Isthmian Games (Background) (1 Cor 9:24-27)
Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win! All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal …
Bible Gem 388 – Try to find Common Ground with Everyone (1 Cor 9:19-23)
Even though I am a free man with no master, I have become a slave to all people to bring many to Christ. When I was with the Jews, I lived like a Jew to bring the Jews to Christ. When I was with those …
Bible Gem 387 – I Would Rather Die (1 Cor 9:15-18)
Yet I have never used any of these rights. And I am not writing this to suggest that I want to start now. In fact, I would rather die than lose my right to boast about preaching without charge. Yet preaching the Good News is …
Bible Gem 386 – Muzzling the Ox (1 Cor 9:7-14)
What soldier has to pay his own expenses? What farmer plants a vineyard and doesn’t have the right to eat some of its fruit? What shepherd cares for a flock of sheep and isn’t allowed to drink some of the milk? Am I expressing merely …
Bible Gem 385 – On Wives and Working (1 Cor 9:4-6)
Don’t we have the right to live in your homes and share your meals? Don’t we have the right to bring a Christian wife with us as the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers do, and as Peter does? Or is it only Barnabas and …