1. Today I begin a new life.

2. I will greet each day with love in my heart.

3. I will persist until I succeed.
4. I am nature’s greatest miracle.
5. I will live this day as if it is my last.
6. Today I will master of my emotions.
7. I will laugh at the world.
8. Today I will multiply my value a
hundredfold.
9. I will act now.
10. I will pray for guidance.
1. All people are sinful.
2. Christ died to pay the
penalty for our sins.
3. Salvation is available to all.
4. Our salvation is unearned,
and we are saved by trusting
completely in Christ and His
finished work.
5. We must ask Christ to come
into our lives.
6. When we receive Christ, we
experience a new birth. We
become a new person.
7. We are assured eternal life
with God.
8. We experience freedom from
the penalty of sin.
9. We become like Christ.
10.We discover God’s limitless
love.
(Romans 3)
• flogged 5 times
• beaten with rods 3 times
• stoned until his assailants thought he was
dead
• shipwrecked three times
• stranded in the open ocean after his ship
was destroyed for a night and a day
• threatened by bandits
• threatened by other Jews
• threatened by Gentiles
• attacked from within his group
• forced to go without sleep, water, and food
• forced to travel naked and in the cold
• all the while bearing the weight of concern
for the new Christian Church that was
established largely through his efforts
(2 Corinthians 11:24-28)
“But whatever was to my profit I now consider
loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I
consider everything a loss compared to the
surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus
my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things.”
Philippians 3:7-8
“For the Lord himself will come down from
Heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of
the archangel and with the trumpet call of God,
and the dead in Christ will rise first…Now
brothers about times and dates we do not need
to write you, for you know very well that the day
of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.”
1 Thessalonians 4:16, 5:1-2
“On the contrary, they saw that I had been
entrusted with the task of preaching the
Gospel to the Gentiles, just as Peter had been
to the Jews. For God, who was at work in the
ministry of Peter as an apostle to the Jews,
was also at work in my ministry as an apostle
to the Gentiles.”
Galatians 2:7-8
• Hafid was counted among the most wealthy
men of his era.
• He lived a long, comfortable life and died
because of old age.

• Paul went about wearing rags, hungry, and

without adequate rest.
• He was chased out of almost every city he
entered, and he had to run away
predominantly on foot.
• Paul spent much of his life in jail and was
eventually beheaded by the Roman
government.