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Posted by Jesse Pingenot in Student

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air.…

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…