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Now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world . . . Acts 17:30-31 Someone asked me recently what it took for me to get sober. For years, I’d tried to find recovery, but for years, I continually returned to my disastrous behavior.…
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Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for in him we live and move and have our being. Acts 17:27-28 I’ve had several times in my life when God seemed to be absent. I was in distress. I needed his help. I prayed . . . and I got nothing. Where…
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The God who made the world and everything in it . . . he made from one man every nation of mankind . . . that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Acts 17:24-27 I’m not endorsing love at first sight, but that is exactly what I…
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So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there. Acts 17:17 I got into a fight with a friend about Covid-19 recently. As a physician, medicine is a large part of my life and of course, I think…
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Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols. Acts 17:16 I’m finally getting around to shedding that 20 pounds that I’ve been needing to lose. I’m only about halfway there, but I’m finding it a challenge to eat…
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The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Acts 17:10 If I went to a bar on a busy night and tried to talk people into an AA meeting and working the 12-steps, I imagine it wouldn’t go over well. Not…
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These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also . . . Acts 17:6 I regularly meet those who know they have a problem with drugs or alcohol. They know they’re causing themselves irreparable harm and they know they’re destroying their relationships. When I suggest radical change though, they often recoil…
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They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, men who are Roman citizens, and have thrown us into prison; and do they now throw us out secretly? No! Let them come themselves and take us out. Acts 16:37 It can be easy while reading the New Testament to get the idea that, as Christians, we’re not supposed…
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Then he brought them up into his house and set food before them. And he rejoiced along with his entire household that he had believed in God. Acts 16:34 When I first attempted to find recovery, I was told, by those who had years of sobriety, what it would take to get there. If you’d…
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When the jailer woke and saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. But Paul cried with a loud voice, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.” Acts 16:27-28 It’s election day, that time when we get the…
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