 If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it.  Invitation to the Gospels - Pagina 303de Donald Senior, Paul J. Achtemeier, Robert J. Karris - 2002 - 406 paginiPrevizualizare limitată - Despre această carte
 | David G. Myers, Malcolm A. Jeeves, Nicholas Wolterstorff - 1987 - 260 pagini
...truth about the benefits of positive self-esteem and positive thinking. Jesus called us to self-denial: "If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me"; but he did not call us to self-rejection. Far from devaluing our individual lives,... | |
 | James R. Beck - 1999 - 284 pagini
...you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things." Then Jesus told his disciples, "If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me." (Mt 16:21-23) In this well-known passage, the self-denial teaching of Jesus consists... | |
 | James H. Harris - 164 pagini
...is indeed a more powerful force than hate, and peace is a more noble goal than conflict. Jesus says, "If any want to become my followers, let them deny...themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me" (Luke 9:23). Following him is the most ethical and morally right way to manage conflict in the church.... | |
 | Stephen D. Moore - 1992 - 228 pagini
...his dyslexic disciples ("who do people say that 1 am? . . . who do you say that I am?"), announces: "If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for... | |
 | Priscilla Pope-Levison, John R. Levison - 1992 - 242 pagini
...up with him to Jerusalem. (Mark 15:40-41) The word "follow" epitomizes the following of the disciple ("If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me" [Mark 8:34]). These women, independent of men, demonstrated a willingness to be executed... | |
 | Janice Capel Anderson, Stephen D. Moore - 1993 - 188 pagini
...dyslexic disciples ("who do people say that I am? . . . who do you say that I am?"), Jesus declares, "If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for... | |
 | Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) - 1992 - 438 pagini
...TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Sunday between August 28 and September 3 inclusive Call to Worship A If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. Matt. 16:24 Or God gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind... | |
 | Robert Homer Ramey, Ben Campbell Johnson - 1992 - 196 pagini
...first the denial of our own will. This denial aspect Jesus made clear to his disciples when he said, "If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for... | |
 | William Carl Placher - 1992 - 220 pagini
...you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things." Then Jesus told his disciples, "If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for... | |
 | Donald Senior - 1992 - 170 pagini
...alternate ways of stressing the need for radical conversion and full commitment to the kingdom. "1f any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me" (Mk 8:34). "For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their... | |
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