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Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. 1 Corinthians 3:18 I imagine that whatever field a person is in, the more knowledge he or she has, the greater the temptation is to embrace arrogance. In…
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Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple. 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 When I worked in the ER, it wasn’t uncommon to take care of those patients who suffered…
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If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire. 1 Corinthians 3:15 It’s been a while since I’ve written about my favorite food/addiction metaphor and today’s passage got me thinking about donuts, so I thought I’d write about them today. It’s odd, when…
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I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 1 Corinthians 3:6-7 When I used to work in the ER, it wasn’t uncommon to be involved in tragic, traumatic, and sometimes life-ending events. At other times, I…
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For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely human? 1 Corinthians 3:4 Most of us have experienced the disappointment of buying into something that we thought was going to change our fitness level, only to find that it did not. Maybe it was a friend or…
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And even now you are not yet ready, for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? 1 Corinthians 3:2-3 Yesterday, on the Facebook version of the blog, I published a photograph of me 10-15…
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But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. 1 Corinthians 3:1-2 While I was in treatment, I felt I was being treated as a child. I could have…
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The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 1 Corinthians 2:14 Looking back, I can now see how drugs changed my thinking, literally causing damage to my brain. As the pills…
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For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? 1 Corinthians 2:11 Growing up, we all knew those kids who simply didn’t possess great hygienic habits. My concern back then was that they appeared to be used to it, remaining unaware of the problem. What if, I thought,…
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No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him. 1 Corinthians 2:9 Over the course of reading my blog, in reference to my own story, you might get the idea that I believe in happy endings for all those who follow God’s…
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