Author: Scott

1 Corinthians 14:26 Let all things be done for building up. When in treatment, I was confronted by another addict who wanted to know if I was filled with the Holy Spirit.  I knew what his question meant.  He wanted to know if I could prove my faith by speaking in tongues.  When I told…
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1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. In my addiction, I thought and behaved as a child.  If I wanted a thing, I did not concern myself with consequences,…
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1 Corinthians 13:4,5 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful… When I first met my wife, I knew she was the one.  I just knew I was going to marry her. …
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1 Corinthians 13:2 If I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. I have seen two different physicians take two very different approaches when giving the same diagnosis of cancer.  Physician one delivers the…
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1 Corinthian 12:4,7,27 Now there are varieties of gifts… To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good…. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. When life fell apart three years ago, due to my addiction, it appeared that my marriage and career were over.  My…
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1 Corinthians 11:29,30 Anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. My son and I were recently working on a project when I got a little careless with the table saw.  As I fed…
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1 Corinthians 10:31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. For much of my life, whenever I have considered what I am going to eat, I have rarely asked what I should eat.  I have primarily pursued what I want to eat.  I do not…
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1 Corinthians 10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. In my addiction, I came to be filled with self-hatred.  I detested looking in the mirror as I despised what I saw.  In my mind, I wanted God but my actions betrayed that I pursued evil.  The conflict tore…
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1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. Over the years in the Emergency Room,…
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1 Corinthians 10:6 These things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did. It is painful to watch those who seem to be stuck in a revolving door in and out of jail.  They come to bible study with good intentions while in jail but those good intentions…
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