Author: Scott

Acts 13:10 You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord? Several years ago, I sat in a recovery meeting where the treasurer was obviously high.  He admitted he had been using but felt that he…
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Acts 10:28 God has shown me that I should not call any person common…  God shows no partiality… I was recently looking up a far-off bed and breakfast online, when I came across this odd advertisement.  If you voted for ——-, this place is not for you.  I found it amusing, but it betrayed a…
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Acts 9:26 When he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples. And they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple. I have an oddly persistent memory of a sucker I stole when I was five or six years old.  I took it from the…
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Acts 9:4. Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? Recently, in jail, I spoke with a man who came to bible study with a bit of a chip on his shoulder.  As he told his life story, he relayed multiple occasions when he had gone to God for help, only to receive nothing.  God, if He…
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Acts 8:18-23  Simon offered them money, saying, “Give me this power also.” But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you… For I see that you are in the bond of iniquity.” I am fascinated, and perhaps obsessed, with how God changes me.  Currently, that obsession is playing out in the battle over…
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Acts 7:58,60 They cast him out of the city and stoned him… And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep. Occasionally, someone will tell me I am a little too serious in my writing. …
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Acts 5:1 Ananias… sold a piece of property, and with his wife’s knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles’ feet. As a child, I recall the feeling of jealousy I got when others were recognized and I was not.…
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Acts 4:12 There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. When I first met with the concepts of recovery and Alcoholics Anonymous (or Narcotics Anonymous), some Christians vehemently discouraged me from attending any such meeting.  As you may well…
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Acts 3:19 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord… I am not a very tidy person.  In fact, I am a bit of a slob.  My wife on the other hand is not.  I tend to leave a…
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Acts 3:6 I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk! When I was in college, I waited tables to pay the bills.  I once served a family who left me with a gospel pamphlet as my…
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