Author: Scott

Jude 1:21,22 …Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.  And have mercy on those who doubt. Some of the worst words ever to escape my lips have been wrought out of the conviction that I was right in the eyes of…
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Jude 1:16 These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters showing favoritism to gain advantage. When Jude speaks of the grumbling malcontent, focused on self, I know exactly who he is talking about.  As soon as I read these words, I attach a name and I get irritated. I know who…
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Jude 1:12-13 These are… shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever. I am no poet but if I was,…
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3 John 1:11 Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. When I was a kid, my father and I were downtown one day when I talked him into buying me candy cigarettes.  Being a father now myself, I know that he thought it would be amusing to see what mom would say.  She of…
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2 John 1:4,5 I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth…And now I ask you… that we love one another. As I wrote a few days ago, God is a perfect balance of both love and truth.  As we have been made in his image, we too have this head…
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1 John 5:14,15 …If we ask anything according to his will he hears us…we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him. As I was watching my Cornhuskers play last night I found myself contemplating this passage, the outcome of the game and the location of my red pen. I do…
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1 John 5:13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. As a kid, I was easy pickings for anyone giving an alter call. Anyone who grew up in an evangelical church knows that of which I speak.…
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1 John 5:4 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. I had a rough day yesterday.  I lost my red pen while grading tests.  I had it one second and then it was gone the next.  My computer had died earlier in the week.  I had more stuff to do than…
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1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. I have found myself to be very hypocritical in proclaiming love for God and then failing to follow through with my behavior.  My hypocrisy has always been most apparent to me in church worship. It has been all too easy…
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1 John 4:19 We love because He first loved us. I knew, when I met my wife, that she was the one.  I was just absolutely convinced that she was the woman I was going to marry.  She did not reciprocate this sentiment.  For seven years.  For seven years, I pursued. When she did begin…
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