Romans 5:3 We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance… I spent yesterday driving the boat, teaching newbies how to wakeboard. I am no expert, yet there I was, giving instruction and watching the inevitable process of fall after fall with gradual improvement. I did my best to provide helpful hints (trying not…
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Romans 4:2-5:1 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about… We have been justified by faith. It was in medical school, that I first learned of the various Personality Disorders. Like any good medical student, I thought I had every disease. The narcissistic personality disorder, characterized by exaggerated feelings of…
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Romans 3:22 …The righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. It is not essential that a person fail radically to understand his or her need for God, but I think it helps. The one who has not made many obvious mistakes in life, or the one who thinks they have…
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Romans 2:21-24 You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? …The name of God is blasphemed… because of you. I have been to recovery meetings where one of the attendees was clearly drunk. The intoxicated is often the one most loudly proclaiming the benefits of recovery and sobriety. In his…
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Romans 2:4 God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance. At a recent discussion at our gym on nutrition, the dialogue turned to the question of whether poor nutrition was a knowledge problem or a behavioral problem. Some said it was a knowledge issue. We do not eat well because we do not know…
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Romans 2:1 In passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. I was broken when I hit the doors of chemical dependency treatment. My public fall humbled me and I thought my pride was dead. I chose (actually I had little choice at the time) an urban…
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Romans 1:24,25 God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts… because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator. Have you ever found yourself in a place you did not intend to go? I once took care of a patient who woke…
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Acts 26:14 It is hard for you to kick against the goads. As we have seen what our dog will eat, we tend think of him as profoundly stupid. He can learn though. When we take him for walks, he takes the leash in his mouth and tries to yank it out of our hands. …
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Acts 20:7-9 Paul… prolonged his speech until midnight… And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer… and he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead. I see defect everywhere. It is safe to say that I am obsessed with…
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