Have you ever run a marathon? You don’t simply wake up one morning and run 26 miles. It takes months of training, run small distances at first and building up the endurance for longer workouts.

If you are going to a national spelling bee or learning electrical engineering, you must study. The mind must build on simple foundational concepts to gain understanding of the complex.

It is generally understood that making the body and mind strong, one has to work hard, practicing day by day. But what about one’s spirit? Is it possible to “work out” the spirit?

Today we continued our exploration of the writing genres of the Bible in a passage from Philippians. Pastor Miles showed us that this chapter provides specific instruction for working out one’s spirit to make it strong.