Sacrifice or Self?

Jeremiah 45:1-5 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel,...

You Cannot Serve God And Self

Jesus gave us this principle that is basic for anyone in the kingdom of God.  The Scripture teaches us that self-will is something with which each of us must contend.  We have a tendency to have an inflated view of ourselves.  When a person is living for self, he...

The Prison Of "Self"

The saddest person, the loneliest person, the most unfulfilled person is the individual whose life orbits around one thing – self.  How empty, how sad.  To live for the pleasure of self is an indication that one is truly dead.  The only way to be freed of self...

The Folly Of Self-Rule

Judges 21:23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them. 24 And the children of Israel...

Others-Minded Theology

Romans 15.2-4 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification. For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that...