Month: January 2023

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. 2 Peter 3:9 When I first met my inpatient addiction treatment counselor, she seemed like a kind, caring person. I had one goal at that…
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But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 2 Peter 3:8 In our jail Bible study, it’s always interesting to hear the inmates talk about how they’re thankful for jail because it’s given them a chance to…
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Scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. 2 Peter 3:3 When I was using, enslaved to my pills, I developed a kind of contempt for those who were living in recovery and for those who abstained from mind-altering chemicals. I was drowning in my addiction and so, I…
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Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking. 2 Peter 3:1 (NIV) After 15 years of following my appetite for drugs, the consequences piled up to the point where I became desperate enough for change that I was willing to do…
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The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire. 2 Peter 2:22 I told a version of this story more than six years ago in the blog, but it’s applicable enough to retell for today’s passage. It’s pretty disgusting, but here goes . . .…
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For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 2 Peter 2:20 The problem with dieting is that it’s usually only a temporary reprieve…
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But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction, suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. 2 Peter 2:12-13 Our dog is pretty intelligent, quickly learning from consequences and changing his behavior accordingly. Using…
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They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. 2 Peter 2:19 I frequently meet those who began drinking because it relieved their anxiety. It gives me a few hours of peace. I know it’s always there – relaxation in a bottle. I…
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But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. 2 Peter…
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For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. 2 Peter 1:21 Recently, I was speaking at a church event, when I used this phrase, God said to me . . . It’s quite a statement – to claim…
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