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When I Fell Through the Ice Yesterday

Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy. Revelation 3:4 Yesterday afternoon, I sat in my hot tub, watching my dog explore out on the frozen lake. It may be April, but it’s still winter…
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Death in the Struggle

Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you. Revelation 3:3 Think of your greatest life struggle with self-control. Perhaps it’s with food. If it isn’t food, substitute…
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Wake Up!

Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. Revelation 3:2 A couple of days ago, a train derailed in a nearby small town – you likely saw it on the news – igniting several train cars of ethanol…
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Dead Inside

I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Revelation 3:1 In my addiction, I lived two existences. There was my life on the outside that everyone saw. I was a husband, father, and an Emergency Room physician. This was the facade that I wanted the world to know.…
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For the Rest of My Life

Only hold fast what you have until I come. Revelation 2:25 I once couldn’t accept that I must continue to work on my recovery for the rest of my life. In my first couple of attempts at recovery, I went to meetings – for a while. I did my daily reading, praying, and meditating –…
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I Think I’d Like Meth

But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden. Revelation 2:24 It’s my nature to be open to new experiences and frankly, I worry that…
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A Little Bit of Knowledge Can Be Dangerous

And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works. Revelation 2:23 A little bit of knowledge, without understanding the big picture, can be quite dangerous. When I was a kid, I saw those on TV who could…
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Does God Punish or Discipline Us?

Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works . . . Revelations 2:22 As my addiction came to light in 2014, my world threatened to come apart. So, I turned to God, praying desperately for protection.…
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Opioids, Alcohol, and Porn

But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. Revelations 2:20 I often find myself pitying the alcoholic. My struggle is with opioids, and for me to obtain pills,…
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Stuck in My Own Head

I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. Revelations 2:19 In medicine, we practice preventative care, which means we’re supposed to manage a patient’s blood pressure, cholesterol, and glucose before they damage the brain, kidneys, and heart. When these things are abnormally…
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