The Training of the Twelve: Timeless Principles for Leadership DevelopmentThe monumental classic on discipleship and leadership training. A complete exposition of how Christ prepared His twelve disciples. |
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... regard . Perhaps the best recommendation that I can give the book , how- ever , is to tell you that although I have many hundreds of books in my growing library , all carefully catalogued and filed , shelved and ordered , I have just ...
... regard . Perhaps the best recommendation that I can give the book , how- ever , is to tell you that although I have many hundreds of books in my growing library , all carefully catalogued and filed , shelved and ordered , I have just ...
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... regards Jesus for the moment as a supernatural being , and as such dreads Him as one whom it is not safe to be near , especially for a poor sinful mortal like himself . This state of mind shows how utterly unfit Peter is , as yet , to ...
... regards Jesus for the moment as a supernatural being , and as such dreads Him as one whom it is not safe to be near , especially for a poor sinful mortal like himself . This state of mind shows how utterly unfit Peter is , as yet , to ...
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... regard to both calls , the evangelists concerned them- selves only about the crisis , passing over in silence all preparatory stages , and not deeming it necessary to inform intelligent readers that , of course , neither the publican ...
... regard to both calls , the evangelists concerned them- selves only about the crisis , passing over in silence all preparatory stages , and not deeming it necessary to inform intelligent readers that , of course , neither the publican ...
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... regard them as ascertained , and must content ourselves with stating that among the twelve was a second James , besides the brother of John and son of Zebedee , and also a second Judas , who appears again as an interlocutor in the ...
... regard them as ascertained , and must content ourselves with stating that among the twelve was a second James , besides the brother of John and son of Zebedee , and also a second Judas , who appears again as an interlocutor in the ...
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... regard to prudential considerations . Why did Jesus choose such men ? Was He guided by feelings of antagonism to those possessing social advantages , or of partiality for men of His own class ? No ; His choice was made in true wisdom ...
... regard to prudential considerations . Why did Jesus choose such men ? Was He guided by feelings of antagonism to those possessing social advantages , or of partiality for men of His own class ? No ; His choice was made in true wisdom ...
Contents
XXXIV | 281 |
XXXVI | 297 |
XXXVIII | 317 |
XXXIX | 326 |
XL | 341 |
XLII | 350 |
XLIII | 356 |
XLV | 368 |
XLVI | 378 |
XLVII | 389 |
XLVIII | 411 |
XLIX | 423 |
L | 436 |
LI | 449 |
LII | 463 |
LIII | 464 |
LIV | 471 |
LV | 480 |
LVI | 488 |
LVII | 497 |
LVIII | 506 |
LIX | 515 |
LX | 524 |
LXI | 532 |
LXII | 538 |
LXIII | 547 |
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Popular passages
Page 61 - I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Page 186 - ... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come.
Page 254 - It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 185 - For whosoever will save his life shall lose it : but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
Page 282 - And he said unto her, What wilt thou ? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.
Page 351 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, the servant is not greater than his lord, neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
Page 444 - Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee : by this we believe that thou earnest forth from God.
Page 117 - But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak ; for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
Page 115 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth : I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 380 - Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me : and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come ; so now I say to you.