Month: October 2022

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5 My daughter teases my wife and I about loving our dog. We say that we don’t love him and honestly, neither of us feel a tremendous…
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Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. Hebrews 13:4 In my addiction, I didn’t engage in an extramarital affair, but to my wife, it felt like I had an affair with the drugs. She felt that I had…
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Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them . . . Hebrews 13:3 I get my hair cut at one of those places in the mall, and every time I go, I drive right by a smoke shop. I’m not proud of this, but when I see customers going in and…
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Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.  Hebrews 13:2 Since we moved to Minnesota more than 20 years ago, we’ve been fortunate enough to live on the lake where we own a boat and spend our summers on the water. A few summers ago, we we’re parked…
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Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire. Hebrews 12:28-29 I’ve never had much interest in getting a tattoo. I have nothing against them. I simply know that I’m much…
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See to it that . . . no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. Hebrews 12:15-16 Because eating healthy is a common struggle, I often use that struggle to illustrate the misery of addiction to those who’ve never been addicted. Just as many of us…
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Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled. Hebrews 12:14-15 Years ago, when our kids were young,…
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For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. Hebrews 12:11 When my kids were growing up, my wife and I loved them and desired to provide a good life for them. We wanted to give them…
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In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. Hebrews 12:4 I still work a couple days a week in urgent care and It’s that time of year when kids of all ages have gone back to their sports after a summer off. This means that I…
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Let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith . . . Hebrews 12:1-2 Back in 2018, my son asked me to run a marathon with him. So,…
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