Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing? Mark 4:38 Often, in stupid, little frustrations, I find myself turning on God. When I’m late, can’t find my keys, the traffic is bad, and I’m low on gas, I find myself muttering, Come on God! I’m going to speak at the treatment center for you.…
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It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth, yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in…
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The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. Mark 4:26-27 It’s maddening to watch someone destroy his life in an addiction. We can’t stand by and do nothing, but no matter…
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Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket, or under a bed, and not on a stand? Mark 4:21 Ashamed and afraid of discovery, I did everything I could to keep my drug use secret. I lied. I used in the dark. I isolated. I certainly didn’t share my struggle with anyone. In…
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Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket, or under a bed, and not on a stand? Mark 4:21 Time in the car is good thinking time for me, so yesterday, as I was driving into the cities, I found myself meditating on today’s passage about being a light to the world.…
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Other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold. Mark 4:8 Some of those in treatment for chemical dependency will experience what is called a treatment high. Newly sober and having made it through withdrawal symptoms, their brain is coming back to life.…
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They are those who hear the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. Mark 4:18 I had a day off yesterday, which means I got up early and ran from one thing to another…
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When his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He is out of his mind.” Mark 3:21 Today’s passage makes me wonder how much misery my concern for the opinion of others has caused me. In my addiction, I was terrified of what everyone would think if they knew,…
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When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him. Mark 3:8 Alcoholics Anonymous has no marketing plan. Rather, they purposefully adhere to the concept of Attraction, not Promotion. AA doesn’t advertise, they just do the work of helping the alcoholic find recovery. Those who find it are their own advertisement to…
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He looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” Mark 3:5 I got mad at work recently. I was justified though. Someone mixed up two charts, creating a lot more work for me. In my frustration, I harshly let the culprit know…
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