Author: Scott

But since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of these things. Acts 18:15 I have a fuzzy memory from my early childhood of telling our next-door neighbor that God didn’t like it that he smoked. At age…
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Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent, for I am with you . . . Acts 18:9-10 I have self-destructive behaviors that I’ve simply come to accept as normal without really realizing it. For instance, I developed my drug addiction just by following my own appetite. Up until that…
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And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent.” Acts 18:6 When I relapsed for the third time, my wife had a painful decision to make. I’d gotten sober before. I’d been to outpatient treatment twice. Then, I’d…
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He has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead. Acts 17:31 A while back, I caught part of a TV special on a religion that is apparently popular…
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Now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world . . . Acts 17:30-31 Someone asked me recently what it took for me to get sober. For years, I’d tried to find recovery, but for years, I continually returned to my disastrous behavior.…
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Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for in him we live and move and have our being. Acts 17:27-28 I’ve had several times in my life when God seemed to be absent. I was in distress. I needed his help. I prayed . . . and I got nothing. Where…
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The God who made the world and everything in it . . . he made from one man every nation of mankind . . . that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Acts 17:24-27 I’m not endorsing love at first sight, but that is exactly what I…
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So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there. Acts 17:17 I got into a fight with a friend about Covid-19 recently. As a physician, medicine is a large part of my life and of course, I think…
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Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols. Acts 17:16 I’m finally getting around to shedding that 20 pounds that I’ve been needing to lose. I’m only about halfway there, but I’m finding it a challenge to eat…
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The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Acts 17:10 If I went to a bar on a busy night and tried to talk people into an AA meeting and working the 12-steps, I imagine it wouldn’t go over well. Not…
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