Stand Firm, Don’t Worry, Pray About Everything So then3, my friends, how dear you are to me and how I miss you! How happy you make me, and how proud I am of you!—this, dear friends, is how you should stand firm in your life in …
Word Study Gems
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 1975 – Unpacking Paul’s ‘Running the Race’ Word Picture (Phil 3:12-14)
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 Messiah Jesus. Brothers, I do not consider myself to have embraced it yet. …
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 …
Bible Gem 1971 – What is the Prize of the Resurrection from the Dead? (Phil 3:10-12)
that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death; if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but …
Bible Gem 1968 – To Know Him Is To Trust Him (Phil 3:10-16)
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 …
Bible Gem 1965 – A Pile of Dung is the Only Thing Left in the Bank (Phil 3:7-9)
Counting his past achievements as dung I once thought these things were valuable, but now I count them worthless because of what Christ has done. Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, …
Bible Gem 1929 – The Kenōsis of the Christ; He Emptied Himself (Phil 2:7)
but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men; Phil 2:7 Philippians 2:7 in Various Versions (ASV) but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men; (BBE) But he made himself as nothing, …
Bible Gem 1914 – My Imprisonment has Spread the Gospel (Phil 1:12-18)
The Spread of the Gospel in Rome And I want you to know, my dear brothers and sisters, that everything that has happened to me here has helped to spread the Good News. For everyone here, including the whole palace guard, knows that I am …