2009-09-30T18:05:40-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/goal/ http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians%203:14&version=NIV 2009-09-30T18:05:40-05:00 Paul tells the Philippians that he is constantly pressing towards his goal. He presses towards the prize of heaven which he was promised through Jesus Christ http://hutchcraft.com/A-Life-That-Matters/Radio-Program/The-Trouble-With-Trophies-8076 2008-08-15T16:43:36-05:00 How many times have we played our hearts out for a prize that ended up breaking in our hands? That position, the championship, the relationship, the vacation, the thing we always wanted, the dream come true only to find it was so fragile. It was actually pretty disappointing. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/The-Really-Amazing-Grace-3836 2008-07-30T16:27:43-05:00 I've even had people confide to me a feeling I would call testimony envy - the sense that I almost got cheated because I didn't have a lot of really sinful sin to be saved from. Well, maybe "amazing grace" doesn't seem all that amazing to you because you weren't much of a "wretch." Well, His grace is just as amazing for you - and in some ways more amazing - as it is for the person who was dramatically lost and dramatically found. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/A-Parents-Hardest-Job-3837 2008-07-30T16:26:34-05:00 There's that hard word - "leave." Ultimately, your son or daughter is supposed to leave you. Which tells us that our children are not ours to keep. And our mission from God: to prepare our children to leave us - to live without us. Not to make them tied to us, always dependent on us. http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=16467 2008-01-03T21:09:11-05:00 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. --Philippians 3:13-14