Author: Scott

Matthew 19:5,8 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh…  Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. When reading Jesus discussion on divorce, it is easy…
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I am pleased to announce that I am selling tickets for The Fortress Spring Banquet where I will be speaking on March 10th.  For those of you who do not know The Fortress, it is a Christian men’s residential facility here in Willmar, offering transformative programming for those struggling with addiction. Most residents have come out…
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Matthew 18:23 Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants… It is so easy to see when another is living in ridiculous hypocrisy.  I may be blind to my own inconsistencies, but when I see them in others, I am hypersensitive.  Jesus’ parable here…
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Matthew 18:21,22 Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.” Jesus’ teaching was painful.  No one likes forgiving someone over and over…
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Matthew 18:15,16 If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or…
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Matthew 18:12-14 If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray …So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should…
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Matthew 18:8 And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire. Whenever someone tells me a story of personal failure and…
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Matthew 18:6 Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea…  woe to the one by whom the temptation comes! Years ago, I walked into the…
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Matthew 18:1-3 …The disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” …He said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” A few years ago, in jest, I told some coworkers that the key to feeling good…
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Matthew 17:20 …If you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you. As a kid, I took this verse to mean that, like Luke in Star Wars, I could learn to move things…
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