Month: September 2017

2 Corinthians 5:16,17 From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh… If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. In my addiction, I came to dislike this passage.  As I was enslaved to my flesh nature, I did not…
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2 Corinthians 5:7 We walk by faith, not by sight. After we read this passage last night, I asked my family if there was a difference between belief and faith.  My son, who is training for his driver’s license, said that I could believe he was a good driver but I could not practice faith…
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2 Corinthians 4:16-18 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day… as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are…
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2 Corinthians 4:7 We have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. I am always a little hesitant when someone teaches that I am delivered from a defect in coming to Christ.  I do absolutely believe that the only adequate solution to the problem…
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2 Corinthians 4:4 The god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light… I have met alcoholics, who though dying from alcohol, still found it impossible to stop.  Though they had turned yellow from liver failure, they would still sneak away to the bathroom to consume…
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2 Corinthians 3:18 We all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. When I first started at my gym, I found it maddening that so many people could do so much that I could not.  It was not just…
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2 Corinthians 3:15,16 …A veil lies over their hearts. But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. I have a place in my head where I go to talk to God.  Though I am very fond of it, I do not like to describe it as I imagine it sounds silly to…
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James 3:2 We all stumble in many ways. Everyone struggles with something.  We all do things we do not want to do and we fail to do the things we know we should.  Though we cause our own misery, we repeatedly return to our destructive behaviors and habits.  We all stumble and fail in many…
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1 Corinthians 2:17 We are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God. When in treatment, I tried to convince an atheist that he needed God.  I argued with and prayed for him.  I meant well, but if I am honest, I was primarily doing it…
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2 Corinthians 2:15,16 We are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. If you go to recovery meetings long enough, you will eventually encounter an intoxicated attendee. …
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