Month: August 2017

1 Corinthians 7:19 Keeping God’s commands is what counts. A few years ago, my family was contemplating a considerable geographic change.  As I claimed to follow God, I asked his opinion on the matter.  I desired the confidence of knowing that I was following God’s plan for my life.  Never mind that I was living…
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1 Corinthians 7:4 For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. My persistent defects are probably nowhere more apparent than they are at home.  If anyone doubts my continual defects, one would need…
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1 Corinthians 6:19,20 You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. When in medical school, I went on a medical mission trip to Venezuela where we set up shop in a local park.  I am sure the group did some good, but I was pretty useless.  I had a few antibiotics,…
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1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. A few years ago, during hunting season, my father and I sat in my pickup at dawn and watched a buck, in rut, chasing a doe.  That buck…
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1 Corinthians 6:12 All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. In my food addiction, I have many times found myself at the refrigerator at 10:30PM, wolfing down 1,500 calories in just a few minutes.  My appetite…
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1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? …And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ… I have known those who feel that their destructive life choices stand as evidence…
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1 Corinthians 5:9,10 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world… since then you would need to go out of the world. Have you ever felt like you were too out of shape to go to the gym?  I…
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1 Corinthians 5:1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans… It is almost unbelievable to me, looking back, to see the conduct I came to consider as normal when I was engaged in active addiction.  Though it is horrific to…
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  1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? A few years ago, our family vacationed in Missouri, where we rented a cabin, which looked nice enough online.  We realized the first night that a raccoon lived in the roof, but we stayed as…
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1 Corinthians 3:15 He himself will be saved, but only as through fire. Though I obsess with some pursuits, for most endeavors in life, I have always been a bit lazy.  I can recall as a teenager, doing the minimum amount required for almost everything.  What is the least amount of work I can do…
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