Analogy
Christians have always spoken of heaven as home. The language is more than sentiment. It names the sense that even the best of this…
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Analogy
The Promise of Escape
common pastoral insight drawn from addiction literature in the compilation
Most addictions do not begin with the desire to be destroyed. They begin with the desire to feel better, to escape, or to manage what feels unmanageable. The substance or behavior works—at first. That early success is part of the trap. What starts as relief slowly becomes the master.
How you’d preach it
Addiction usually begins as a solution before it becomes the problem.
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