Author: Scott

What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols! Habakkuk 2:18 Step two of the Twelve Steps states that as addicts, we must come to believe that only a power greater than us can…
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Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink. Habakkuk 2:15 By the time I left college, I’d been wrestling for most of my life, being instructed by someone else on when and how to exercise. Frankly, I was tired of it. I looked forward to doing what I wanted, when I wanted. As it turns out…
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Wine is a traitor . . . Habakkuk 2:5 As you know if you’ve read previously, eating right is one of my life struggles. I’d been doing pretty well lately, when last weekend, for some reason, we had a full pan of s’mores bars just sitting around. I must have walked by them 20 times, remaining…
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The righteous shall live by his faith. Micah 2:4 I heard it again the other day. A fellow struggler, wanting to quit using, asked me to pray for divine assistance. I asked what his plan of action was. To pray. And to ask you to pray. I encouraged him to pray, but in his prayer, to…
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You make mankind like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler. Habakkuk 1:14 When I read of a tsunami killing 240,000 people, or when I read in the Bible about God killing thousands of Israel’s enemies, I have to wonder at God. Is life cheap to you God? Are we just…
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Are you not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. Habakkuk 1:12 I have a vivid memory from a childhood vacation during which we were at the beach when the wind came up and blew my beach ball out across the water. I burst into tears as I knew that…
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I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told. For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans . . . Habakkuk 1:5-6 Whenever I’ve struggled with some self-destructive behavior, I’ve always gone to God, asking for him to simply remove it. I prefer a painless surgical excision of my struggle…
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Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? . . . The law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. Habakkuk 1:3-4 I rarely write of politics. It’s just not what I do. If I had to write a blog 15 years ago though, I’d probably have spent a…
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Why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me . . . For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted. Habakkuk 1:3-4 The times I’ve questioned God most are when he just doesn’t make sense, or when I can’t feel him. I believe that God is loving and all-powerful.…
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Hosts of slain, heaps of corpses . . . And all for the countless whorings of the prostitute, graceful and of deadly charms . . . Nahum 3:3-4 As a child, I watched a movie in which a young woman’s wicked step-sisters treated her so cruelly, that I felt horrible for this fictional character. How could…
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