Philippians 3:10-16 (Reaching Forward to Things Ahead) …12 I don’t mean to say I am perfect. I haven’t learned all I should even yet, but I keep working toward that day when I will finally be all that Christ saved me for and wants me to be. 13 No, dear brothers, I am still not all I […]

Philippians 3:7-14 (The Prize of the High Calling) …10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. 12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: […]

Acts 24:10-16 (Pressing Acceptably with Pure Conscience) 14 “But one thing I do confess, that I believe in the way of salvation, which they refer to as a sect; I follow that system of serving the God of our ancestors; I firmly believe in the Jewish law and everything written in the books of prophecy; 15 and […]

Acts 20:18-27 (Follow Through and Fulfill Your Call/Life Purpose) …20 Yet I never shrank from telling you the truth, either publicly or in your homes. 21I have had one message for Jews and Gentiles alike—the necessity of turning from sin to God through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.22 “And now I am going to Jerusalem, drawn […]

Ecclesiastes 2:1-11 (Pressing Unto Empty Pursuits) 10 I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor, and this was the reward for all my toil. 11 Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, […]