https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL8Z2B3da_k&list=OLAK5uy_l752S-kbDvKW6JskQjaTwW7Qqsd1QALB4&index=6 All of this was not simply theology to me. As God was teaching me these concepts I knew that it was also a calling to die, I just was not quite sure how it would happen. But it did. For me it was a gradual thing. I do not have time to share the… Continue reading Dying to Live (Day 7): A Wrap Up, A Song, & A Testimony
Some of you want to leave a legacy “for God” by doing great things “for Him.” Some want God to help you leave a legacy for yourself. But Yeshua never taught to focus on leaving a legacy at all. This is because He is interested in your love, not your legacy. He made you with… Continue reading Dying to Live (Day 6): Your Renown
Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. Matthew 10:38-39, also found in Luke 17:33, John 12:25, Matthew 16:24-25, Mark 8:35-37, Luke 9:24-25 For everyone who exalts himself will… Continue reading Dying to Live (Day 5): Dying to Your Reputation
Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his… Continue reading Dying to Live (Day 4): Dying to Your Relational Support System
For all these out of their abundance have put in offerings for God, but she out of her poverty put in all the livelihood that she had. Luke 21:4 Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!” ’ “But… Continue reading Dying to Live (Day 3): Dying to Your Riches
Why use adultery when golf will do? -CS Lewis, Screwtape letters What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Romans 6:1-2 You must die to sin, which is rebellion… Continue reading Dying to Live (Day 2): Dying to Your Rebellion
This will be the first of a series of shorter posts in which we break up a longer post into a daily snippet, at the request of some of Beloved's most faithful readers, who understandably, don't want to spend all day reading a long treatise on a topic, even though we may enjoy writing them.… Continue reading Dying to Live (Day 1): The Best and Hardest Thing A Follower of Yeshua Must Do
