So Paul says run the race as if to win the prize. What does that look like in our normal CSRA suburban lives? How do we orient our lives in such a way that they will bear fruit that will bring glory to God both now and forever.

We've all heard you must obey your conscience, but what is a conscience? And how does that connect to wisdom from above? In Chapter 8, Paul will teach us how to think about our sense of conscience as something that is developing towards a conscious awareness of God and learning to practice his presence in the day-to-day life and inside of community.

We learn in recovery that often times we are tempted to seek a geographical solution for a spiritual problem. So we think that our circumstances are the problem instead of learning how to be God's man or woman inside the circumstance itself. This Sunday, Paul will teach us to think about our our own context and how the gospel can be embodied and brought to bear in our day-to-day lives in the unique circumstances that each of us find ourselves.

I would like to tell you guys a story of perhaps the most awkward and challenging experiences I have personally observed in church. What it taught me is that love is difficult. Sometimes we want to make love out to be a feeling when it requires thought and process. But if we walk that out, we get to see God's kingdom advance.

Don't fear the fire! Last week, we talked about powerlessly reigning and power. This week, we're gonna talk about what it means to not fear the fire. We all go through situations that test our faith. In any given moment, the people we love are going through the same. How do we learn to look through the fire and to see the God who is with us?

Paul says, "My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me." What does it mean to have a clear conscience? What does it mean to reign with Christ? How do these two things interconnect?