TITLE

Eyes on the prize

AUTHOR(S)

Hays, R.B.

PUB. DATE

March 1992

SOURCE

Christian Century;3/11/92, Vol. 109 Issue 9, p273

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Relates the lesson of how we should not keep looking back on the glory days of our past, but adopt the story of Paul in Philippians which tells us to cast the past off and look toward the future and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. God relentlessly wrenches us out of the past and presses us into the future. God's saving power breaks in upon our future and shatters our comfortable status quo; More.

ACCESSION #

9203230322

Tags: GOD

 

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