Month: September 2015
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Slightly Obsessed #125: You Will not Be Put to Shame
Abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming. – 1 John 2:28 It started as a child. It haunted me through school. Sometimes it still comes in the night, when darkness covers my heart and whispers to my mind the…
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Slightly Obsessed #124: When Justice Comes Slowly
Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed quickly, therefore the hearts of the sons of men among them are given fully to do evil. – Ecclesiastes 8:11 Be sure your sin will find you out. – Numbers 32:23 He sat waiting just outside the circle of the streetlight, poised in the shadows…
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Slightly Obsessed #123: The Secret Feast
All the days of the afflicted are bad, But a cheerful heart has a continual feast. – Proverbs 15:15 As people count strength, Betsie was a frail person. Chronic illness had battered her small frame even before she was herded with the others on a train headed to a Nazi death camp. Unlike her…
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Slightly Obsessed #122: Faith Aflame
John responded to them all, saying, ‘As for me, I baptize you with water; but He is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to untie the straps of His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.’ – John 3:16 Google’s English dictionary and Oxford Languages…
