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John 15:11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. I remember singing in Sunday school at the age of five, being told by the teacher, Heaven will be just like this.  In heaven, we will get to sing for eternity.  Heaven…
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John 15:1,2 I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. I was tazed once.  It was horrible.  The stupid thing is, I volunteered for it. …
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John 15:5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. Depending on which appetite I am afflicted by at the moment, I am often of a singular mind.  I pursue that which…
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John 14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you…  Let not your hearts be troubled… The life of addiction is one marked by chaos and turmoil, where peace is a complete stranger.  Constant terror of discovery and obsession with the next high consumes the mind.  The addict is torn with guilt,…
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John 14:23 If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. In the midst of my greatest life disaster, I found God to be painfully absent.  As I could not feel or hear him, I questioned his…
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John 14:14 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. I often read this verse with an inherent defect that prevents me from truly understanding it.  The gravity of self continually draws my gaze to me, away from God.  Then, when I read that Jesus will do anything I ask in…
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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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