June – For the Gospel’s Sake Day 180 – 29 June The love that takes hold For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. (2 Corinthians 5:14, NIV) What makes a person do the difficult, costly, faintly unreasonable things that the watching world struggles to […]
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June – For the Gospel’s Sake Day 179 – 28 June The crown time cannot touch Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. (1 Corinthians 9:25, NKJV) We began this week standing in a Corinthian stadium, watching a runner cross the line and stoop to receive his
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June – For the Gospel’s Sake Day 178 – 27 June Look where you’re going …forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13–14, ESV) The past has a powerful gravity, and most
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June – For the Gospel’s Sake Day 177 – 26 June Outlast the storm For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. (Hebrews 10:36, NASB) Beginnings are easy, and almost everyone is good at them. The new project launches in a
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June – For the Gospel’s Sake Day 176 – 25 June Shed what slows you Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. (Hebrews 12:1, KJV) A life gathers weight the way a coat pocket
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June – For the Gospel’s Sake Day 175 – 24 June Stop beating the air Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. (1 Corinthians 9:26, NKJV) There is a particular kind of tiredness that has nothing to do with hard work and everything to do
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June – For the Gospel’s Sake Day 174 – 23 June Who holds the reins? Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. (1 Corinthians 9:25, NIV) Of all the virtues, self-control is surely the one nobody pins to a poster. It sounds grey and joyless, conjuring up locked biscuit tins and cold
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June – For the Gospel’s Sake Day 173 – 22 June Run like you mean it 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. (1 Corinthians 9:24, ESV) Just outside Corinth, every couple of years, the whole region
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June – For the Gospel’s Sake Day 172 – 21 June The bond that holds us together Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. (Colossians 3:14, NASB) Suppose a church does everything this week’s reflections have described, and does it well. The people genuinely share one another’s heavy
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June – For the Gospel’s Sake Day 171 – 20 June Grace where payment was due Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. (Ephesians 4:32, NIV) Most of us are carrying an old wound somewhere, tucked out of sight but still tender to the touch.
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