Denying Yourself Now to Gain Something Better Later

The Gospel’s Role in Self-Discipline

Here at ALERT we strive to teach each man self-discipline: how to wake up on time, work out regularly, and read their Bible daily. These are all good things, but they all come after our foundation of the Gospel. We know that as good as discipline is, it is “… not...
Denying Yourself Now to Gain Something Better Later

Discipline Versus Self-Discipline

As men come to the end of Basic Training, I like to explain to them that there is a difference between discipline and self-discipline. Men learn a lot of discipline in Basic Training, but very little self-discipline. Almost all of the discipline learned in Basic...
Denying Yourself Now to Gain Something Better Later

Godliness Comes Through Discipline

Professor, pastor, and author Donald S. Whitney wrote “I’ve never known a man or woman who came to spiritual maturity except through discipline. Godliness comes through discipline.” He continues, “think of the Spiritual Disciplines as spiritual exercises. To go to...
Denying Yourself Now to Gain Something Better Later

Our Daily Relationship with God

“My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips, when I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night;” Psalm 63:5-6 ESV It is a consistent thread throughout scripture that we are called...
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