Month: July 2017

Romans 1:24,25 God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts… because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator. Have you ever found yourself in a place you did not intend to go?  I once took care of a patient who woke…
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Acts 26:14 It is hard for you to kick against the goads. As we have seen what our dog will eat, we tend think of him as profoundly stupid.  He can learn though.  When we take him for walks, he takes the leash in his mouth and tries to yank it out of our hands. …
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  Acts 20:24 I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. If I am honest, I must admit that my greatest defect…
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Acts 20:7-9 Paul… prolonged his speech until midnight… And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer… and he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead. I see defect everywhere.  It is safe to say that I am obsessed with…
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Acts 17:26-30 He determined…  that they should seek God… and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us…  Now he commands all people everywhere to repent… A few years ago, I signed up for an endurance race that required months of training and would have taken more than half a day…
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Acts 13:22 I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will. Growing up in my church, it was not uncommon to hear the story of one who had lived a wild, destructive life only to find faith and then be radically transformed.  I do…
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Acts 16:25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them… I had to work last Sunday.  It was a beautiful July day and as I was going to miss it, I was grumpy.  Three years ago, when life fell apart, I promised that if…
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Acts 13:10 You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord? Several years ago, I sat in a recovery meeting where the treasurer was obviously high.  He admitted he had been using but felt that he…
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Acts 10:28 God has shown me that I should not call any person common…  God shows no partiality… I was recently looking up a far-off bed and breakfast online, when I came across this odd advertisement.  If you voted for ——-, this place is not for you.  I found it amusing, but it betrayed a…
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Acts 9:26 When he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples. And they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple. I have an oddly persistent memory of a sucker I stole when I was five or six years old.  I took it from the…
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