An Orderly Account – Are you in denial?
If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
He will never leave you nor forsake you. . .
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me
And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent?
But who do you say that I am? . . . “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world,[c] but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.