Month: June 2022

  Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers. 1 Timothy 4:16 As I’ve mentioned previously, I enjoy CrossFit and CrossFit competitions. In such a competition a month ago, I was hanging from a bar, performing racing pull-ups,…
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Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching.  1 Timothy 4:16 Our clinic laboratory has impressively complicated machinery that can quickly provide accurate results for our patients – as long as those machines are working properly. To this end, the laboratory staff performs routine quality control. At regular intervals, the machines must be…
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Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress. 1 Timothy 4:15 In any addictive behavior, whether it’s drugs, smoking, gambling, pornography, gluttony, anger, or shopping, the behavior grows to consume more of life than anyone ever intended. That’s the definition of an addiction – losing control and repeating some…
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To this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe. 1 Timothy 4:10 As I’ve mentioned previously, my father is a pastor and over the years, I’ve heard him preach hundreds of sermons. Yesterday, I had…
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Rather train yourself for godliness; for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come. 1 Timothy 4:7-8 A couple of weeks ago, I participated in a three-day CrossFit athletic competition. I trained hard for…
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Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. 1 Timothy 4:7 I have lists of people for whom I pray every morning. I have a list of friends in recovery for whom I pray not to relapse. I have a list of friends struggling with addiction for whom I pray to find recovery. Occasionally my…
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For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer. 1 Timothy 4:4-5 As Christians, we believe that we should follow God’s will for our lives. It’s easy though, to desire something so badly…
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Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith . . . who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 1 Timothy 4:1-3 In my drug use I gained a lot of weight,…
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Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons . . . 1 Timothy 4:1 In my first few attempts at recovery, I wanted to be free from my addiction, but at the same time, I reserved the right…
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I am writing these things to you so that you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth. 1 Timothy 3:14-15 Last week, as I was up North fishing with friends and family, we found some…
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