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Servanthood: Does He Really Care

by Phill Butler | Following Jesus-To be a Servant

LUKE 7:1-10 Day 4• Does He Really Care? “When Jesus had finished saying all this in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. There a centurion’s servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die” (Luke 7:1-2). Thus opens one of the...

Servanthood: Locked Into the System

by Phill Butler | Following Jesus-To be a Servant

ROMANS 12:1-8 Day 3 • Locked into the System “Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mold, but let God re-make you so that your whole attitude of mind is changed” (Romans 12:2, PH). There’s nothing so out of step with the world’s...

Servanthood: Reasonable Service

by Phill Butler | Following Jesus-To be a Servant

ROMANS 12:1-8 Day 2 • Reasonable Service “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service” (Romans 12:1, KJV). Why, we ask, is presenting our bodies...

Servanthood: The Principle of Paradox

by Phill Butler | Following Jesus-To be a Servant

PHILIPPIANS 2:1-6 Day 1: The Principle of Paradox Taking the very nature of a servant…he humbled himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place” (Philippians 2:7-9). A man is tallest when he kneels—so...