Everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life. Many who are first will be last, and the last first. Matthew 19:29-30 The gym is always a good place to get a clear view…
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“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God . . . With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:24-26 As I was preparing to leave chemical dependency treatment a few years ago, I…
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Sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Matthew 19:21 Yesterday, I addressed pornography, which probably motivated some to share the blog with their spouses. You need to read this! It’s always easy to see another’s struggle. The truth is though, we’ve all got some struggle.…
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There are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 19:12 Most drug addicts, once they clean up, find they have other addictions. One of the more common ones, involves sex, lust, and pornography. Some don’t find this problematic because that’s just what guys do. Others though, have brought…
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Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. Matthew 19:8 I grew up in a time and place where tattoos were taboo, being worn only by military personnel and bad boys. I was neither. Tattoos are much more common now, but it’s…
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What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate. Matthew 19:6 In my addiction, I put the drug above everything: faith, career, and marriage. The repetitive lying, hiding, and destructive behavior eventually took its terrible toll on my relationship with my wife, who, in the third relapse, simply wanted nothing to do with me. In…
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“You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?” Matthew 18:32-33 I don’t generally think of myself as bitter, resentful, or unforgiving. If I’m honest though, there are those whom I struggle to forgive.…
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Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.” Matthew 18:21-22 Those of us who have recurrently engaged in destructive behavior really like today’s passage.…
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Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them. Matthew 18:20 In recovery, I’m finding that I must do a lot of things that are the exact opposite of my addictive behavior. In my addiction, I isolated. I know a lot of addicts use with friends, but that wasn’t me. In…
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If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. Matthew 18:15 Being an addict in recovery myself, and working with other addicts, I’ve had opportunity to be on both sides of an intervention. It’s a painful undertaking and is generally something everyone wishes to avoid. Unfortunately, though, it’s…
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