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The Day Booth Died

On this date in history, 1865, Union cavalry troopers cornered and shot John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, on a farm in Virginia.  Booth had shot Lincoln 12 days earlier, at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C., while the president was watching the play Our American Cousin. Lincoln died the next morning at the…

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A Matter of Choices

Life is a matter of choices.  Your addiction may explain your behaviors, but it does not excuse your behaviors. Every time you act out, that is on you.  C.S. Lewis said, “Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature.”…

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The King’s Table

2 Samuel 9:13: “Mephibosheth always ate at the king’s table, but he was lame in both feet.” Mephibosheth was a son of Jonathan, which made him a grandson of King Saul, who had treated David like dirt. But when David became king, he made good on an old promise. He welcomed Saul’s descendant to the…

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Too Far Gone?

Our addiction screams this message to us over and over: “You’re no good! You are beyond hope! God could never do anything with you!” Today, I have great news! No addict is too lost to be found, too sinful to be saved, too addicted to be freed, too broken to be fixed, too dirty to…

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Divine Meeting

“Suddenly Jesus met them” (Matthew 28:9). The women had given everything they had to their new Lord. Then he went to the cross and gave his life as a ransom for the world. But from their perspective, all they understood was that one day, Jesus was with them, and the next day, he was gone.…

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Death Valley

Most people think there is no life in Death Valley, California. That’s because, 99 percent of the time, it is a dessert wasteland. But after a monsoon in 2004, something strange happened. Plants sprung forth. Vegetation began to grow. How was this possible? The answer: even when there were no outward signs of life, the…

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Step 3

Step 3: “We made a decision to turn our lives and will over to the care of God as we understood God.” Notice a keyword in Step 3 – care. If you aren’t yet ready to trust in God personally, trust in his care. Call me crazy, but I’m grateful for my addiction. Why? Because…