Brian memory verses

Discipleship (Living Sacrifice)

Don't copy the behaviors & customs of this world,  but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will be able to test & approve what God's will is for you, which is good & pleasing & perfect. (NLT)

Love (Christ's Humility)

Don't be selfish; don't try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. (NLT)

Discipleship (God Transcends all Understanding)

Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, & thank him for all he has done. (NLT)

Family (Purity & Love)

God's will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin. (NLT)

Discipleship (Anger Tested. Quick to Listen)

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, & slow to become angry, (NIV)

Discipleship (First Disciples)

"Come, follow me," Jesus said, and I will make you fishers of men." (NIV)

Discipleship (Judging Others)

A student is not greater than his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher. (NIV)

Family (26) Witnessing (27) (Disciples Tested)

"If anyone comes to me, & does not hate his own father & mother & wife & children & brothers & sisters, yes & even his own life, he cannot be My disciple. Whoever does not carry his own cross & come after Me cannot be my disciple. (NASB)

Discipleship (31) Salvation (32) (Abraham's Descendants)

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples & You will know the truth, & the truth will set you free." (ESV)

Love (Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial)

"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." (NASB)

Discipleship (Vine and Branches)

My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, & so prove to be My disciples.(NASB)

Discipleship (Living Stones)

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.(NIV)

Faith (Paul's Thanksfulness) 

So we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding. (NLT)

God (Timothy be Bold) 

For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline. (NLT)

Discipleship (God's Loving Discipline)

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. (NIV)

Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives’ tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come. (NIV)

Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart. (NIV)

• Faith (Ambassadors of God's Love) 
• Topic: Christ the Center

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! (NIV)

• Discipleship (20a) Faith (20b) (Paul Opposes Peter on the Circumcision Issue) 
• Topic: Christ the Center 

My old self has been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. (NASB)