Author: Scott

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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John 8:7 Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her. I have always loved the story of Jesus and the woman caught in adultery as it is a beautiful picture of how Jesus responds to us in our destruction.  In the story, the Pharisees brought this…
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John 5:24 Whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. If you have never known the misery and destruction of following self, then today’s entry may not be for you.  If you do not have any destructive defects,…
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John 5:14 You are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you. Over the years, I have met many patients who lament their inability to lose weight.  Though they insist they eat nothing, they continue to expand.  I have felt this frustration myself. I diet for a few days and I am still…
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John 4:34 My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. I seem to have an insatiable appetite.  Not only am I always hungry, I almost always desire most, that which is worst for me.  I do not crave broccoli.  I want donuts, pizza and steak (in large quantities). …
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John 4:14 Whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life. Years ago, when I regularly stepped on a scale for wrestling, I would use dehydration to make my weight. …
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John 3:19,20 The light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. Several years ago, the story broke of a celebrity whose…
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John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. When I meet with others struggling with addiction, the most common frustration is the refusal to be completely honest.  The addict always knows best and in his thinking, he…
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John 3:14,15 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. I had one of those days yesterday when my focus was just off.  It was not any one thing but rather just a convergence of several…
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