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Month: December 2022

What’s Going to Be Different About Your Eighth Time in Treatment?

. . . In your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you. 1 Peter 3:15 I meet all incoming patients in treatment for their admission physical. Occasionally though, I must see them again…
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Is It Wrong to Want to Be Happy?

Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit; let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it. 1 Peter 3:10 What good does faith do for me? I once believed that Christianity meant giving…
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The Beggar

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. 1 Peter 3:8 You’ve seen him while driving, standing on the corner with a cardboard sign – Homeless. Out of work. Trying to feed my kids. God Bless. When I was young, I felt bad for him.…
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My End of the Deal

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. 1 Peter 2:24 When my wife and I got married, we entered into an agreement, making vows to love and care for each other. Unfortunately, at the…
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The Blue Cheese Game

If when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. 2 Peter 2:20-21 Just out of high school, I…
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Free to Return to Jail

Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. 1 Peter 2:16 Working or volunteering in jail, it’s always disappointing to see anyone return to their confinement. While incarcerated, those inmates likely promised themselves and others that they’d walk the path of righteousness…
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Let’s Go (to Church) Brandon

Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the…
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The Problem with Christianity

Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation. 1 Peter 2:12 I very much appreciate the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and I believe in the idea of alcoholics (and addicts) helping others…
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Jesus Offends Me

The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone, and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense. They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. 1 Peter 2:7-8 “Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion.” “Ooh” said Susan. “I’d thought he was a man. Is…
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My Appetite is an Idiot

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. 1 Peter 2:11 Over the last couple of weeks, since my knee surgery, I’ve not been as active as usual and I’ve been sitting around at home, which means continual access to the…
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