Brother Greg Adams, former youth pastor and currently speaker for Bridge City Ministries speaking on the family and life.

Text: Mark 8:34-38

What will you accomplish with your life?  We only have one chance to accomplish anything.

1. Cannot split our lives
   1. Pleasing God or Pleasing self
      1. James – no man can serve 2 masters.
2. To keep your life is to lose it
   1. Deny self – Luke 15; I Cor 6:19
   2. God weeds out the sin and sinner – Matthew 15:13
   3. God wants to bless us – Psalm 37
3. To give your life is to gain it  V. 35
   1. We will be rewarded in this life as well as in eternity – Mark 10:29-31
   2. What are we holding on to? – Romans 12:1,2; I Peter 4:1,2