Tag: self-love

• Pharisees and Facebook

  5They [the Pharisees in Jesus’ day] do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, 6and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues 7and greetings in the marketplaces and being called rabbi by others.–Matthew 23

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  November 5, 2025

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• Two Key Verses

  24Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.–Matthew 16  I [Paul] have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son…

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  October 27, 2025

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• Deny Your Greatest Idol

  23And [Jesus] said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. —Luke 9

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  December 26, 2024

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• Say “No”

  11For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. 12It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, 13while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, 14who gave himself…

  bradshawjoel

  June 29, 2024

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• Lovers [1-minute read]

  1But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,4treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5having the appearance of…

  bradshawjoel

  April 17, 2024

  2 Timothy

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• Three Points About Idols

  4So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that “An idol is nothing at all in the world” and that “There is no God but one.” 5For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”), 6yet for us there is but one…

  bradshawjoel

  August 19, 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

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  February 20, 2023

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• 5 Discipleship Questions

  24Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 26For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his…

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  January 16, 2023

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• 5 End-Times Loves

  1But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,4treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5having the appearance of…

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  December 23, 2022

  2 Timothy

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