Paul is using athletic metaphors to describe his Christian life. The writer of Hebrews did the same thing in our text last week in Heb 12.

You Must Have A Goal:

"Only one gets the prize." — 1 Corinthians 9: 24

A goal must be clear...

Joshua was riding with me in the car when he was three or four years old.  Out of the blue, he asked me, "Daddy, can you whistle?"  I whistled a little tune.  He said, "When I grow up I want to whistle just like you!" In a little...

The expert in the law has a question: Who is my neighbor? He has answered that the two great commandments are love God and love neighbor. Jesus tells him this is correct. But he wants to justify himself. He is not sure that he is keeping the Second...

The parable of the Good Samaritan is given by Jesus in response to a question by a religious expert: “What must I do to inherit eternal life?”

Jesus threw the question back at him. And the expert came up with the Great Commandment: Love God, Love...