Acts 20:24 “neither count I my life dear unto myself” Philippians 3:8 “I count all things but loss . . . and do count them but dung” Philippians 3:13 “I count not myself to have apprehended” Four times in three verses, Paul makes reference to “count I”, “I count” or...

Philippians 3:10-11 “That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.” In a day of shallow Christianity, there are few that exemplify the...

Philippians 3:14 “I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Following his Damascus road experience, where God transformed a rebellious sinner into a righteous saint; Paul knew that he was a “chosen vessel” (see Acts 9:15) and God had a plan...

Mark 12:41-44 “And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto him his...

Mark 12:41-43 “And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto him his...