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I Think I’ll Just Have One

As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. 2 Timothy 4:5 Nearly eight years ago, I relapsed into drug use and a spiral of dramatic self-destruction. It didn’t start out with me losing my job and going to treatment one day. It started out with just…
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Tell Me What I Want to Hear

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions . . . 2 Timothy 4:3-4 When I began doing some Olympic lifting a couple of years ago, I thought I knew how to lift weights. I did…
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Instruction Manual for Life

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 When my kids were young, they’d spend hours playing with LEGOs. They’d build spontaneously, but the most fun was…
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Count the Cost of Faith

Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted . . . 2 Timothy 3:12-13 Throughout my life, I’ve often been a little too preoccupied with what others think of me. In reference to my faith, I believe in God, and I want to follow him, but I’d prefer…
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The Knowledge Trap

. . . Always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. 2 Timothy 3:7 In medical school, I memorized and learned a multitude of facts. I passed my board exams, and I knew a lot of stuff. I wasn’t yet fit to practice medicine though. Simply knowing a lot wasn’t…
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All the Little, Normal, Acceptable Sins

People will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. 2 Timothy 3:2-5 While using drugs,…
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How to Disagree

Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth . . . 2 Timothy…
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When My Stomach is in Control

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. 2 Timothy 2:22 Our dog is always hungry, eating almost anything. In fact, I’ve never seen him full enough to turn away from food. When we don’t restrict what he eats, he…
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Service to Others

If anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work. 2 Timothy 2:21 Alcoholics Anonymous teaches that we must be of service to others, even early in recovery. We’re not yet ready to…
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Gangrene

But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, and their talk will spread like gangrene. 2 Timothy 2:16 Gangrene is the medical term used to describe a type of tissue death caused by lack of blood supply. Fingers and toes are commonly affected when the small blood vessels that…
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