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Judas PeterSuccess with $$ Failed in

CrisisSuccess w/politics Failed in

Self- Control

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Peter was a failure in a way that most dread: he was socially inept, often putting his foot in his mouth at the worst times. The time when Jesus needed him the most, he collapsed in fear from a little girl, a hapless, blustering coward.

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He is not the kind of person you would want on your team in battle. Nor would you feel comfortable in introducing him to your friends.

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Judas PeterByword for Betrayal HonoredA True Villiam A True

Saint

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Yet today the world still follows after the lineage of Judas in much the same way the world follows after the lineage of Cain. Our values are upside down!

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Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt.

--B. Graham Dienert

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MARK 9:33-37

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They came to Capernaum. When he was in the house, he asked them, "What were you arguing about on the road?" But they kept quiet because on the way they had argued about who was the greatest.

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Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all."

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He took a little child and had him stand among them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them, "Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me."

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Mark 10:31- (NLT)But many who are the greatest now will be least important then, and those who seem least important now will be the greatest then.”

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The Shotgun Principle

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Phil. 2:3-4 (MSG)Don't push your way to the front;

don't sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don't be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.

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Phil. 2:3-4 (NIV)Do nothing out of selfish

ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

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The Two Cookie Principle

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Serve, even when no one is watching

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God must increase and we must decrease!

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Psalm 115:1Not to us, O LORD, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness.