Tag: roman

• Take Up One’s Cross

  38And whoever does not take his cross and follow me [Jesus] is not worthy of me. 39Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.–Matthew 10 I [Paul] have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And…

  bradshawjoel

  October 19, 2025

  matthew

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• Five End-Times Focuses

  13Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. 14Let all that you do be done in love.–1 Corinthians 16 We get closer to the end by the day. Here is how Paul ended his first letter to the church at Corinth. It wasn’t written to us, but here it is for us.…

  bradshawjoel

  August 28, 2023

  1 Corinthians

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• 3 Discipleship Rules

  34And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.–Mark 8

  bradshawjoel

  February 20, 2023

  mark

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• Fragrance

  14But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. 15For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, 16to one a fragrance from death to death, to the…

  bradshawjoel

  July 23, 2022

  2 Corinthians

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