Month: June 2021

For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful. What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also. 1 Corinthians 14:14-15 After my last…
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For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. 1 Corinthians 14:2 I grew up in a conservative Christian home, but like most other kids, I just wanted to fit in with the crowd. What I felt made…
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Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. 1 Corinthians 14:1 When I first began working out at my gym several years ago, there were people there doing things that I couldn’t imagine doing. I wanted to do what they could do, but from where I was at the time,…
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For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.1 Corinthians 13:12-13 I recently found myself looking at a…
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When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was four or five years old, my family attended an elderly woman’s birthday party from our church. There was a…
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Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 1 Corinthians 13:8 I recently had the opportunity to visit the ocean once again where I was reminded of how small I feel when I step foot in it. Whenever I look…
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Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Corinthians 13:7 Most of us who invest in addiction ministry, do so with some wide-eyed optimism, hoping that everyone we meet will instantaneously, miraculously, and permanently find recovery. Nowhere is man’s persistent self-destructive nature on better display though, than in those…
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Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 1 Corinthians 13:6 In recovery from an addiction to prescription pain medications, I’ve always felt sorry for the alcoholic. There are liquor stores on every corner and the ease of access must be problematic for the problem drinker. I’ve always said that if there…
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Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful. 1 Corinthians 13:5 I’ve heard people say that true love shouldn’t be difficult. The implication is that as a relationship gets to be a lot of work, that’s the sign that it isn’t true love, because, if you’re really in love,…
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Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. 1 Corinthians 13:4 Even in the worst of my addiction, I clung to the idea that I was still a good father to my children. I hated who I was and what I was doing, but I soothed…
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