And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there . . . Acts 20:22 When I had to leave my job in the ER due to my drug addiction, I had to go to inpatient treatment if I wanted my career back. With my…
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And they took the youth away alive, and were not a little comforted. Acts 20:12 Like any job, working the ER had its challenges about which I regularly complained. When I lost that job due to my addiction, I was out of work for a few months, during which time I was desperate to return…
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And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead. Acts 29:9 Once, on a camping trip as a kid, I picked up a hatchet and began chopping…
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Now some cried out one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had come together. Acts 19:32 I’ve always had an innate desire to fit in. Growing up, like most kids, I felt like everyone else was normal and I wasn’t. When I didn’t…
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But when Paul wished to go in among the crowd, the disciples would not let him. Acts 19:30 I’m impulsive. I feel a thing and it’s just natural for me to immediately act on that feeling without thinking of the consequences. Unfortunately, my first feeling or thought, is often unproductive, unhelpful, or downright destructive. This…
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About that time there arose no little disturbance concerning the Way. For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen. Acts 19:23-24 In my drug addiction, I made terrible choices that seemed like good ideas. Drugs literally damaged my brain’s ability to make good…
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And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. Acts 19:19 I knew for a long time what it would take for me to get sober. I knew I needed to confess, go to inpatient treatment, and change jobs. I can’t possibly…
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Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.” Acts 19:13 Why would I go back to treatment? I’ve heard it all before. I’m not going to learn anything new. I hear…
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He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately. Acts 18:26 For anyone unfamiliar with my blog, I write daily on my own addiction, faith, and recovery. I use scripture as a platform to spur…
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