“Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as … Continue reading Run the Race to the Finish
Year: 2024
A Servant to All
“For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but if not of my own will, I am still entrusted with a … Continue reading A Servant to All
The Looking Glass
Looking through the looking glass,Everything is backwards.Hate is love and love is hate,And truth not really matters. Live in dreamland all you want,The real world, what is that?Fantasy, oh fantasy,Fiction now indeed is fact. Logic, reason, what are those?Needed not, I suppose.Make it up and go along,Play a tune and sing a song. Who needs … Continue reading The Looking Glass
Honoring God with Our Bodies
“…The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members … Continue reading Honoring God with Our Bodies
Who’ll Inherit the Kingdom of God?
“To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers! “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually … Continue reading Who’ll Inherit the Kingdom of God?
The Church Judging the Church
“I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who … Continue reading The Church Judging the Church
Cleanse Out the Old Leaven
“Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven … Continue reading Cleanse Out the Old Leaven
Broken Hearts
Oh, how hearts breaking.Sinners are faking,Lies they are making,Love they’re forsaking.Broken hearts aching. Liars pretending,And not hearts mending,And not love sending,Sin they’re defending,Truth they are bending. Shooting their arrows,Not good bedfellows,Not on road narrow,Lies they do swallow,All this foreshadowed. Immoral are they,E’en though they do pray,But faithful not stay,In practice they stray,From then to this … Continue reading Broken Hearts
Blatant Sexual Immorality Among You
“It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. “For though absent in body, … Continue reading Blatant Sexual Immorality Among You
But to Admonish You
“I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. I urge you, then, be imitators of me. That is why I … Continue reading But to Admonish You
Run With It 