Author: Scott

John 15:5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. Depending on which appetite I am afflicted by at the moment, I am often of a singular mind.  I pursue that which…
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John 14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you…  Let not your hearts be troubled… The life of addiction is one marked by chaos and turmoil, where peace is a complete stranger.  Constant terror of discovery and obsession with the next high consumes the mind.  The addict is torn with guilt,…
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John 14:23 If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. In the midst of my greatest life disaster, I found God to be painfully absent.  As I could not feel or hear him, I questioned his…
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John 14:14 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. I often read this verse with an inherent defect that prevents me from truly understanding it.  The gravity of self continually draws my gaze to me, away from God.  Then, when I read that Jesus will do anything I ask in…
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John 14:6 I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. I worry about my arrogance.  I worry that, in my writing, I am going to promote me above my message.  Frankly, I can be a know-it-all.  I have, in my pride and ignorance, previously…
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John 14:1 Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God I have known those who, in their depression, think they have failed God.  They feel that as they spend so much time with a depressed mood that they must be doing life wrong and thus, feel guilty.  They believe their depression is a sin. This…
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John 13:34,35 Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. Most of us are familiar with the defect of finding our value in what others think of us.  We prefer to believe…
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John 13:5 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. When my wife and I were engaged, I snail-mailed her a chapter of a Christian book I was reading at the time.  I do not remember the…
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John 8:34 Everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. Do you know what it is like to struggle with some behavior that seems to control you?  Despite causing some destruction, you return again and again to this thing that you do not want to do.  You want to stop but the behavior has…
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John 8:32 You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. Anyone who has worked with addicts is familiar with denial.  Everyone who has been addicted to a defective behavior, at one time or another, has insisted that he or she does not have a problem.   I am not an addict! As…
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