Author: Scott

Romans 2:21-24  You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery?  …The name of God is blasphemed… because of you. I have been to recovery meetings where one of the attendees was clearly drunk.  The intoxicated is often the one most loudly proclaiming the benefits of recovery and sobriety.  In his…
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Romans 2:4 God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance. At a recent discussion at our gym on nutrition, the dialogue turned to the question of whether poor nutrition was a knowledge problem or a behavioral problem.  Some said it was a knowledge issue.  We do not eat well because we do not know…
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Romans 2:1 In passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. I was broken when I hit the doors of chemical dependency treatment.  My public fall humbled me and I thought my pride was dead.  I chose (actually I had little choice at the time) an urban…
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Romans 1:24,25 God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts… because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator. Have you ever found yourself in a place you did not intend to go?  I once took care of a patient who woke…
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Acts 26:14 It is hard for you to kick against the goads. As we have seen what our dog will eat, we tend think of him as profoundly stupid.  He can learn though.  When we take him for walks, he takes the leash in his mouth and tries to yank it out of our hands. …
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  Acts 20:24 I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. If I am honest, I must admit that my greatest defect…
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Acts 20:7-9 Paul… prolonged his speech until midnight… And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer… and he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead. I see defect everywhere.  It is safe to say that I am obsessed with…
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Acts 17:26-30 He determined…  that they should seek God… and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us…  Now he commands all people everywhere to repent… A few years ago, I signed up for an endurance race that required months of training and would have taken more than half a day…
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Acts 13:22 I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will. Growing up in my church, it was not uncommon to hear the story of one who had lived a wild, destructive life only to find faith and then be radically transformed.  I do…
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Acts 16:25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them… I had to work last Sunday.  It was a beautiful July day and as I was going to miss it, I was grumpy.  Three years ago, when life fell apart, I promised that if…
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