Tag: addiction
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Day 302: The Other Time Jesus Got Mad (John 11)
Most people remember Jesus cleansing the temple as the one time He got angry. But in John 11, Jesus’ anger burns again—this time, not against people, but against death itself. When He stood at Lazarus’s tomb, He “snorted with anger,” confronting the Great Interrupter that had marred His Father’s perfect design.
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Day 032: Addicted to Frogs (Exodus 8:3-7)
The plague of frogs in Exodus sounds almost comical—until you realize how closely it mirrors the way addiction works. What begins as something tolerated or even treasured soon invades every space of life. Pharaoh’s problem was never just the frogs, and ours is never just the addiction. Until we deal with the sin that invited…
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Funeral for An Addict (Ecclesiastes 7:2; John 11)
Today was hard, Lord. I was asked to preach a funeral service for someone I had never met; the daughter of one of my church members. She died of a drug overdose last Friday night. It wasn’t a suicide, at least not in the traditional sense of someone who deliberately takes their life with one…
