Month: June 2023

It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. Revelation 21:6 When my children were little, like all children, they didn’t understand time as adults measure time. Minutes and hours meant nothing to them. So, on a long car ride, when asked how much longer, like many of you,…
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Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book. Revelation 22:7 Working in addiction medicine, every day I meet those whose lives I know would be vastly improved if they stopped using drugs. So, I make my recommendations: Go to treatment, take this medication, address your mental health, abandon your…
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Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done. Revelation 22:12 I grew up in an Evangelical tradition, which appropriately taught that we’re saved by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8-9). We will never be good enough to earn God’s love and we don’t get to…
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And behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book. Revelation 22:7 As I’ve mentioned before, I have a list of people and things I pray for every morning. Somewhere in the middle of that list, I pray for those I know who’re seriously ill.…
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But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.  Revelation 21:27 Two nights ago, someone stole a marine battery out of our boatlift’s hydraulic pump. The fact that I’m fortunate enough to own a boatlift means…
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And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb . . .and there will be no…
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The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son. But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is…
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To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. Revelation 21:6 Back in college, when I was wrestling and struggling to make weight every week, I’d always sweat the last five or six pounds off in the two hours before weigh-ins. Then, once I made weight, I’d be…
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And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.”  Revelation 21:5 A few years ago, we had a water line break in our home. We were out of town at the time and got a phone call from a neighbor telling us that there was water running out…
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