If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire. Matthew 18:8 I’ve wrestled with more than a few flaws. I’ve engaged in self-destructive…
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Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. Matthew 18:6 So, this happened again recently. After speaking at a chemical dependency treatment center, one of…
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The disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” Matthew 18:1 A few years ago, while running a distance race, I got passed by a woman who was quite pregnant. I’m not going to lie. That stung. I certainly didn’t have any expectations of winning the race – I’m…
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Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day.” And they were greatly distressed. Matthew 17:22-23 My wife at I recently attended a beautiful wedding, which prompted us to look back at ours.…
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If you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you. Matthew 17:20 We enjoy superhero movies at our house which means we’ve often had discussions on what superpower we would want. In our debates,…
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Whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. Matthew 16:25 While enslaved to my addiction, I wanted out. I knew I’d be much happier if I found sobriety, but I also knew that the cost of sobriety was higher than I was willing to…
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Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man. Matthew 16:23 In the disastrous consequences of my addiction, I thought my career as a physician was over. There were those though, who insisted it wasn’t. One such…
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He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Matthew 16:15-16 I ice fished once as a child, but when we first moved to Minnesota, I realized how serious ice fishing really was. It’s hard to believe in July, but…
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The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. Matthew 16:1 Addiction is an inevitable symptom of a life spent in pursuit of self. When I live for me, doing what I want, I follow whatever self-destructive behaviors I’m prone to, and eventually, I engage compulsively…
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Where are we to get enough bread in such a desolate place to feed so great a crowd? Matthew 15:33 One of the most maddening things about addiction is that the addict returns repeatedly to behavior he knows to be destructive. This is the definition of addiction – to repeatedly engage in an act despite…
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