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Week 25
Lessons 169-175 show how to navigate the gray areas of life.
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Overview:
- The Gray Area Principles
- A Look In The Mirror Before You Head Out The Door
Video Lesson
Memory Verses
Primary Verse:
But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Matthew 6:6
Secondary Verse:
Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.
Mark 1:35
Daily Lessons
Obedience to Christ-Day 169
May 25th, 2026
Romans 12:1-2“Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”So if our bodies b...
Obedience to Christ-Day 170
May 25th, 2026
I looked for a good “fog” picture on the internet, but they were all blurry (sounds like something Yogi Berra would say). I’m laughing with a deep belly laugh at how goofy I must have looked this past autumn as a friend and I attempted to motor our way out of Barden’s Inlet in dense fog without onboard GPS. Picture the typical North Carolina backwaters—poles with channel markers doing their job, w...
Obedience to Christ-Day 171
May 25th, 2026
6, 8, 10, 14 when you’re in the fog. Now for 10 - this is an obvious one that takes us right back to our first few weeks of study.1 Corinthians 10:31“So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”Corinth was a multi-cultural church with Jews (no pork, kosher), Greeks (lot of strange foods from distant lands), etc. (Now think of the bar room scene in the first Star...
Obedience to Christ-Day 172
May 25th, 2026
6, 8, 10, 14 when you’re in the fog. Now for 10 - this is an obvious one that takes us right back to our first few weeks of study.1 Corinthians 10:31“So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”Corinth was a multi-cultural church with Jews (no pork, kosher), Greeks (lot of strange foods from distant lands), etc. (Now think of the bar room scene in the first Star...
Obedience to Christ-Day 173
May 25th, 2026
6, 8, 10, and now 14. It is on Island 14 that we’ll camp for the rest of this fog bank. The church in Rome had very similar problems as Corinth. God used Paul to deliver more insights on the “Gray Area” principles.Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. Th...
Obedience to Christ-Day 174
May 25th, 2026
Back to island 14 we go, having looked at 6, 8, 10, and 14 once already. Let’s go to the end of the chapter, although you should read all of 14 for context.Romans 14:21“It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall.”God has given us a huge amount of freedom. That’s what being “moral free agents” means! We have a will, options, abil...
Obedience to Christ-Day 175
May 25th, 2026
Do you ever catch yourself looking at a mirror and think to yourself… Am I being a little narcissistic about my appearance? We’re only human and we always want to see what we look like before we head out the door. Try covering all the mirrors in your house before you go to bed. When you wake up the next day, TRY to leave the house without looking in a mirror. You will be incredibly self-conscious ...