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Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. 1 Peter 2:16 Working or volunteering in jail, it’s always disappointing to see anyone return to their confinement. While incarcerated, those inmates likely promised themselves and others that they’d walk the path of righteousness…
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Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the…
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Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation. 1 Peter 2:12 I very much appreciate the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and I believe in the idea of alcoholics (and addicts) helping others…
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The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone, and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense. They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. 1 Peter 2:7-8 “Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion.” “Ooh” said Susan. “I’d thought he was a man. Is…
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Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. 1 Peter 2:11 Over the last couple of weeks, since my knee surgery, I’ve not been as active as usual and I’ve been sitting around at home, which means continual access to the…
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Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. 1 Peter 2:2 In addiction medicine, I care for those who know they have a problem with chemicals and who are coming to me for a solution.…
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So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 1 Peter 2:1 I’m a little repetitive. I write often of abandoning the old life so that I may experience the new one. The Christian life, as Jesus described it, is a daily denial of self to follow him. It’s…
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. . . Love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; for “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but…
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Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart . . . 1 Peter 1:22 While I was using, enslaved to pills, I got to the point where it wasn’t fun anymore and I wanted to stop. I was miserable and…
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As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” 1 Peter 1:14-16 I’ve done a lot of sitting around since my knee…
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