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Correction Stems from Love

Posted by Jesse Pingenot in Student

Jesus looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me” (Mark 10:21). Better is open rebuke than hidden love.Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses (Prov 27:5-6). But those elders who are sinning you are to reprove before everyone, so that the others may take warning (1 Tim 5:20). Brothers and…

Total Surrender to Christ

Posted by Jesse Pingenot in Student

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you (James 4:7). For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it (Mark 8:35).  Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while…

Total Surrender to the Spirit

Posted by Jesse Pingenot in Student

 “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire” (Matt 3:11). In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans (Rom 8:26). “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit…