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 […]
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, […]
Luke 10:38-42 (Pressing On in Life, in the Mindset of Mary or Martha – The Lords Feet) 38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lords feet listening to […]