I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us. [NLT] Phil 3:14 We seem to have danced around the meaning of the Heavenly Prize. Just what is the heavenly prize …
Games Gems
Bible Gem 1978 – The Mind of a Champion; Who is the GOAT? (Phil 3:10-16)
My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already attained this – …
Bible Gem 1977 – Did Paul Actually Care About the Greek Games? (Phil 3:12-14)
I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection1 for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting …
Bible Gem 1976 – Pursuing the Goal to Win the Prize (Phil 3:14)
But this one thing I do: Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I keep pursuing the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly call in the Messiah Jesus. Phil 3:12-14 I left you with these phrases from the previous …
Bible Gem 1974 – This One Thing I Do (Phil 3:12-14)
Straining Toward The Goal / Trusting in Christ and Pressing on to Maturity It’s not that I have already reached this goal or have already become perfect. But I keep pursuing it, hoping somehow to embrace it just as I have been embraced by the …
Bible Gem 1973 – Running The Race of Life; Going For Gold (Phil 3:12-16)
Trusting in Christ and Pressing on to Maturity I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection …