Chemo hiccups...a great photo...and a serious look at sin...

     Let's start with a great photo.  We took our second men's retreat up in the U.P. and here is the shot from the shore of Lake Superior.  I was only able to make it to part of this but it was a great time.




     Chemo hiccups, never heard of them but I have experienced them.  This is round 3 of chemo and I had some new side effects faster.  I went into a state of anxiety or depression at the infusion center and couldn't keep my head up and then it subsided.  Next I broke out in hives on my face and one hand and was given some medicine to make that go away.  Then I came home to experience excessive burping leading to hiccups that lasted a good 10 hours.  I did my google search and found this to be a common side effect that I had not experienced yet.  Last night if I rolled from side to side they would start up again and nothing seem to take them away.  This morning is better but I can say that my head is clearer than it has been through any round of chemo.  Today is freedom day of the pump at about 3 p.m.


     Church-wise I went back through the year to look at home much of the Bible we have covered this year.  On Sunday mornings we have covered the books of James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, this Sunday is 2 John, and we should get through 3 John and Jude by the end of the year.  On the Sunday night Bible Study we have covered Galatians, Ephesians, Phillippians, Colossians, we start 1 Thessalonians and should get through 2 Thessalonians before year end.  Also, I have experienced over the year that as I have been pulled out of the way because of cancer, things that I have been praying about for the church are emerging through the leadership of others.  I have not been pushing just praying and God is leading others to create ministries within the body of the church.


     Lastly, I want to post this list of sins that James MacDonald, who is the pastor at the Harvest Bible Chapel in Chicago, included in his latest sermon on repentance.  It is a serious list to challenge us to get serious about sin.


Adam




PLACE A NUMBER FROM 0 TO 10 BESIDE EACH ITEM TO INDICATE


0 IF IT IS NOT AN ISSUE AT ALL; 10 IF IT IS A POINT OF FREQUENT FAILURE. GO SLOWLY, ASKING GOD FOR TOTAL 


HONESTY. FOCUS ON THE SINS YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY DEALT WITH BEFORE GOD. 
 THE EXTENT OF ITS PRESENCE IN YOUR LIFE.





_____ Addiction 
_____ Adultery 
_____ Anger 
_____ Argumentative 
_____ Bigotry 
_____ Bitterness 
_____ Boastful 
_____ Bossiness 
_____ Causing dissension 
_____ Conceit 
_____ Controlled by emotions 
_____ Controlled by peer pressure 
_____ Covetousness 
_____ Critical tongue 
_____ Deceitfulness 
_____ Depression 
_____ Dishonesty 
_____ Disrespectful 
_____ Domineering 
_____ Drug dependency 
_____ Drunkenness 
_____ Envy 
_____ False guilt 
_____ False modesty 
_____ False witness 
_____ Fear 
_____ Feeling helpless 
_____ Feeling rejected 
_____ Feeling stupid 
_____ Feeling worthless 
_____ Gluttony 
_____ Gossip 
_____ Greediness 
_____ Hatred 
_____ Homosexual lust 
_____ Hostility 
_____ Idolatry 
_____ Impatience 
_____ Impulsiveness 
_____ Impure thoughts 
_____ Indifferent to needs 
_____ Inhibited 
_____ Insecurity 
_____ Intemperance 
_____ Jealousy 
_____ Laziness 
_____ Loner 
_____ Low self-esteem 
_____ Lust for pleasure 
_____ Lying 
_____ Materialistic 
_____ Murder 
_____ Must repay kindness 
_____ Negativism 
_____ Occult involvement 
_____ Opinionated 
_____ Oppressive 
_____ Overly quiet 
_____ Overly sensitive to criticism 
_____ Passivity 
_____ Prejudice 
_____ Pride _____ Profanity 
_____ Projecting blame 
_____ Rebellion to authority 
_____ Refuse to forgive 
_____ Resentment 
_____ Restlessness 
_____ Sadness (anxiety) 
_____ Self-centeredness 
_____ Self-confidence 
_____ Self-gratification 
_____ Self-hatred 
_____ Self-indulgence 
_____ Self-justification 
_____ Self-pity 
_____ Self-reliance 
_____ Self-righteousness 
_____ Self-sufficiency 
_____ Sensuality 
_____ Sexual immorality 
_____ Sexual lust 
_____ Slander 
_____ Stubbornness 
_____ Temper 
_____ Theſt 
_____ Unjust 
_____ Unloving 
_____ Vanity 
_____ Workaholic 

GETTING SPECIFIC WITH SIN.
A simple man serving a great God and the local pastor of Stillwater Community Chapel (stillwater-chapel.org). We are in our 38th year of full time ministry. God directed us to this local body of believers on the Western Range of the Rockies to grow with them in mission and mindedness of Christ.

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