Month: May 2023

Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for his judgments are true and just. Revelation 19:1-2 Eight years ago this week, my wife and kids traveled to visit some extended family for a graduation celebration. I didn’t go. I just wasn’t welcome, and I didn’t want to go. I’d only been sober…
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The fruit for which your soul longed has gone from you, and all your delicacies and your splendors are lost to you, never to be found again! Revelations 18:14 No one wants to live like this. Almost daily, I meet those who express this bleak sentiment. They’re homeless. They’re hopelessly addicted. They have nothing. They…
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As she glorified herself and lived in luxury, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning, since in her heart she says, “I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see.” For this reason her plagues will come in a single day, death and mourning and famine,…
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Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues. Revelation 18:4 I have a self-defeating behavior that you will likely find quite absurd. If I ever see a closed box of donuts at work, I must know what’s inside. I know it’s probably donuts, but…
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And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the prostitute. They will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire . . . Revelation 17:16 Working in correctional medicine, I often meet those who’ve been newly incarcerated and frankly, they’re freaking out. I…
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Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk. Revelation 17:1-2 In a small group study on marriage, my wife and…
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Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed! Revelation 16:15 I’m always working on eating healthy, but I’m also always not that far away from struggling and failing. I’ve been doing pretty well lately,…
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They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores; and they repented not of their works. Revelation 16:10 My son recently asked me about xylazine, the so-called Zombie Drug. Often added to the illicit fentanyl supply on the streets, it’s earned its nickname by causing tissue death which produces large, disfiguring…
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Yes, Lord God the Almighty, true and just are your judgments! Revelation 16:7 When I was a child, I was acutely sensitive to being teased. When another kid poked fun at me, I felt I was being bullied and I wanted them to be punished for it. When I, in turn, teased others, I felt…
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Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations! Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. Revelation 15:3-4 In our marriage, when my wife and I have some conflict, she must occasionally remind me…
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