He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately. Acts 18:26 For anyone unfamiliar with my blog, I write daily on my own addiction, faith, and recovery. I use scripture as a platform to spur…
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After spending some time there, he departed and went from one place to the next through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples. Acts 18:23 A few days ago, I worked out by myself, which was unusual as I normally go to the gym at a specific time when I know my…
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But on taking leave of them he said, “I will return to you if God wills,” and he set sail from Ephesus. Acts 18:21 We have a sizable Somali population that has immigrated to our small town in West Central Minnesota, where I’ve come to know and enjoy them through our relationship in the clinic.…
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But since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of these things. Acts 18:15 I have a fuzzy memory from my early childhood of telling our next-door neighbor that God didn’t like it that he smoked. At age…
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Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent, for I am with you . . . Acts 18:9-10 I have self-destructive behaviors that I’ve simply come to accept as normal without really realizing it. For instance, I developed my drug addiction just by following my own appetite. Up until that…
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And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent.” Acts 18:6 When I relapsed for the third time, my wife had a painful decision to make. I’d gotten sober before. I’d been to outpatient treatment twice. Then, I’d…
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He has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead. Acts 17:31 A while back, I caught part of a TV special on a religion that is apparently popular…
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Now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world . . . Acts 17:30-31 Someone asked me recently what it took for me to get sober. For years, I’d tried to find recovery, but for years, I continually returned to my disastrous behavior.…
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Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for in him we live and move and have our being. Acts 17:27-28 I’ve had several times in my life when God seemed to be absent. I was in distress. I needed his help. I prayed . . . and I got nothing. Where…
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