Tag: discipleship
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1/20/25 Bible Thought: Uncomfortable Discipleship (Matt. 16)
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhile salvation is a free gift of God’s grace, the life of discipleship is costly and any who would follow after the Lord Jesus must deny themselves, take up their cross, and follow Him.
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1/6/25 Bible Thought: The Motive of the Heart (Matt. 6)
Reading Time: 3 minutesMatthew 6 continues Jesus’ famous “Sermon on the Mount” where He gives instructions on what the life of discipleship under Him ought to look like. Although there are quite a few themes that are brought up, the chapter begins with a stark warning. “Beware!” Jesus says. This word means, “to be in…
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1/3/25 Bible Thought: The Life of Discipleship
Reading Time: 3 minutesMatthew 5 begins Jesus’ famous sermon on the mount that consists of chapters 5-7 in Matthew’s Gospel. After many crowds followed Jesus, He took His disciples up onto the mountain to teach them (5:1). The Greek word mathetes, which underlies our English, “disciple” means, “one who engages in learning through instruction from…