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Month: April 2021

You Don’t Look Like a Runner

And even now you are not yet ready, for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? 1 Corinthians 3:2-3 Yesterday, on the Facebook version of the blog, I published a photograph of me 10-15…
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Big Boy

But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. 1 Corinthians 3:1-2 While I was in treatment, I felt I was being treated as a child. I could have…
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Brain Damage

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 1 Corinthians 2:14 Looking back, I can now see how drugs changed my thinking, literally causing damage to my brain. As the pills…
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Stinky Thoughts

For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? 1 Corinthians 2:11 Growing up, we all knew those kids who simply didn’t possess great hygienic habits. My concern back then was that they appeared to be used to it, remaining unaware of the problem. What if, I thought,…
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When God Doesn’t Fix It

No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him. 1 Corinthians 2:9 Over the course of reading my blog, in reference to my own story, you might get the idea that I believe in happy endings for all those who follow God’s…
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Issuing a Rare Retraction

I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. 1 Corinthians 2:3-5…
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Reality Check

And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 1 Corinthians 2:1-2 A friend recently let me know he was reading my book, which is always a…
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Credentials

Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord. 1 Corinthians 1:31 At a medical education conference, when physicians speaks on any given topic, their authority to do so is usually bolstered by their credentials. Behind their written name, will appear a series of abbreviations representing their education and titles they hold. It’s not enough…
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You’re Too Old, Fat Man

Not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world…
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I’m Not Doing That

For 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. 1 Corinthians 1:18 At the gym, whenever we do something that I don’t feel like doing – which is often – I have a bad habit of referring to…
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