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1 Corinthians 15:51-55, We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye… this mortal body must put on immortality… “O death, where is your victory?  O death, where is your sting?” When in medical school, I thought I wanted to be a Family Practice physician.  As it turns out, I…
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1 Corinthians 15:42-44 What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable… It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. Growing up, I sang a children’s church song which used bullfrogs and butterflies as a metaphor for the…
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1 Corinthians 15:32,33 If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” Do not be deceived…  Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. Paul, in today’s passage, described two paths in life.  On the first, there is no God, and thus,…
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1 Corinthians 15:31 I die every day! I have lost a thousand pounds and found almost all of them.  I have many times, dieted for a few weeks, only to go right back to eating normally, erasing any progress I may have made.  In my drug addiction, I quit using hundreds of times, relapsing daily.…
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1 Corinthians 15:9,10 I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. I have memories with which I struggle.  I have caused others horrible…
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1 Corinthians 14:26 Let all things be done for building up. When in treatment, I was confronted by another addict who wanted to know if I was filled with the Holy Spirit.  I knew what his question meant.  He wanted to know if I could prove my faith by speaking in tongues.  When I told…
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1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. In my addiction, I thought and behaved as a child.  If I wanted a thing, I did not concern myself with consequences,…
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1 Corinthians 13:4,5 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful… When I first met my wife, I knew she was the one.  I just knew I was going to marry her. …
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1 Corinthians 13:2 If I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. I have seen two different physicians take two very different approaches when giving the same diagnosis of cancer.  Physician one delivers the…
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1 Corinthian 12:4,7,27 Now there are varieties of gifts… To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good…. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. When life fell apart three years ago, due to my addiction, it appeared that my marriage and career were over.  My…
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