Month: August 2017

1 Corinthians 3:1-3 I could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ… For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh? In today’s passage, Paul referred to his audience, being consumed with jealousy and conflict, as people of the flesh.  The…
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1 Corinthians 1:27-29 But God chose what is foolish in the world…  God chose what is weak in the world…  God chose what is low and despised in the world… I stood out on my porch last night, watching the storm and pondering this passage.  As the lightening flashed, the thunder pounded and the waves…
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1 Corinthians 1:18 The word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. Having found recovery and sobriety, it is oddly easy to forget my previous way of thinking.  Having left active drug use, it is easy to become frustrated…
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Romans 16:17,18 Watch out for those who cause divisions… avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites… I have picked fights with others over issues like predestination or the age of the earth, under the guise of discussing God’s truth.  Pretending to be on the side of right…
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Romans 14:2,3,20 One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats… It is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats. Occasionally,…
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Romans 13:14 Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires. When in active addiction, it was constant work for me to find the next pill.  From the time I woke up, I started planning on how I could get that which I wanted most.  Family, career…
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Romans 13:11,12 The hour has come for you to wake from sleep…  The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. I still occasionally have using dreams, common to those in recovery, in which I dream that…
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Romans 12:17-21 Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable… If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all… Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. In treatment, I learned this phrase, Do the next right thing.  For addicts, impulsive behavior…
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Romans 12:5,6 We, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them… I am a doer and a mover.  I do not sit still well.  On vacation with my brother-in-law and our boys this week, I…
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Romans 13:3 I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment. I have been chastised a couple of times lately, by other Christians, for referring to myself as an addict.  They feel it is inaccurate and harmful to use such…
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