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Matthew 26:41 Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. I have heard many Christians preach that the solution to corrupt behavior is to Just stop it.  If you are doing something destructive, just quit.  It’s that simple…  This has always bothered me…
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Matthew 26:39 My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will. I often find myself in conflict between two wills in opposition to each other.  I want to lose weight but I really like donuts.  I want to be in good shape but…
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Matthew 26:36-38 Then Jesus… said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go over there and pray.” …He began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.” It is tempting for me to be dismissive of struggles with which…
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Matthew 26:26-28 Jesus took bread…and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” And he took a cup… saying, “Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.” I have this need to insert myself into a story to try…
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Matthew 26:14-16 Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?” And they paid him thirty pieces of silver. And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him. The name Judas ranks up there with the great villains of history.  He…
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Matthew 26:7-9 A woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table. And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the…
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Matthew 25:35,36 I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink… I was naked and you clothed me… I was in prison and you came to me… As you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me. I often define my…
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Matthew 25:23 Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ During my second year of residency, my wife and I were on a flight when a woman behind us began having chest pain.  I was technically a…
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Matthew 24:29,30 The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven… and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. As a child, I dreamt of the apocalypse. It was just a dream, but…
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Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it!  How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! What I get out of the bible, I think, depends a lot on…
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