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John 14:6 I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. I worry about my arrogance.  I worry that, in my writing, I am going to promote me above my message.  Frankly, I can be a know-it-all.  I have, in my pride and ignorance, previously…
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John 14:1 Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God I have known those who, in their depression, think they have failed God.  They feel that as they spend so much time with a depressed mood that they must be doing life wrong and thus, feel guilty.  They believe their depression is a sin. This…
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John 13:34,35 Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. Most of us are familiar with the defect of finding our value in what others think of us.  We prefer to believe…
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John 13:5 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. When my wife and I were engaged, I snail-mailed her a chapter of a Christian book I was reading at the time.  I do not remember the…
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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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