Month: January 2016
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Slightly Obsessed #137: This Old House
For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. – Hebrews 3:4 The last few years we’ve been tearing into our aging log home to give it some new life. Raising five children took its toll on the place, and it’s been looking tired. But there’s one thing…
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Slightly Obsessed #136: What Is an Atheist?
Remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. – Ephesians 2:12 ATHEOS, Atheist: godless; destitute of God; given up by God and excluded from communion with God* What is an…
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Slightly Obsessed #135: The One Time You Can Know God Is Near
The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, But the LORD tests hearts. – Proverbs 17:3 One year just after Christmas, my brother’s home burned to the ground. Virtually nothing was saved except for a few wedding photographs that miraculously escaped the flames. In tears I watched him and his wife…