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Month: May 2021

The Cautionary Story of Ravi Zacharias

This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, he is known by God. 1 Corinthians 8:1-3 When I write, I usually avoid telling someone else’s story and I rarely refer to specific news…
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You Complete Me?

I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife, and his interests are divided. 1 Corinthians 7:32-34 When I went to treatment, I left a disaster…
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Why Change is So Hard

For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ. 1 Corinthians 7:22 Recently I’ve found myself asking this question: Are there some people who cannot change or find recovery? I’ve watched others make the same…
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What Am I Supposed to Do with My Life?

Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. 1 Corinthians 7:17 Years ago, when I was facing a significant career change, I went to a respected Christian elder, asking him this question: Does God have a specific plan for where I live…
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When a Husband and Wife Are Going in Opposite Directions

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife? 1 Corinthians 7:16 Several years ago, when my abuse of prescription pain pills came to light – meaning my wife found out – I got sober really quick. I promised I’d…
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The Divorce Escalator

To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife. 1 Corinthians 7:10-11 In the disastrous consequences of my drug addiction, my…
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Temptation

Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 1 Corinthians 7:5 I spend a sizable portion of my week providing medical care at a chemical…
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How to Build a Great Marriage

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. 1 Corinthians 7:4 I’ve often said that my drug addiction hasn’t been my greatest flaw in life. My addiction was only a symptom of my…
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The Secret Shortcut to Recovery

You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Spend enough time around any Christian recovery program, and you will eventually run into someone who’s experienced a radical, miraculous deliverance from a specific addiction. That’s not been my experience, but I cannot discount those who’ve had the miracle. Once,…
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Closet Drinker

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? 1 Corinthians 6:19 The challenge for many addicts and alcoholics, when they get out of treatment or jail, is that they go back to their old life which usually means their old friends.…
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