Month: August 2017
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Slightly Obsessed #194 Heaven Is Calling: More than an Angel
For to which of the angels did God ever say: ‘You are my Son; today I have become Your Father’? Or again: ‘I will be His Father, and He will be My Son’? – Hebrews 1:5 (Berean Study Bible) God couldn’t have said it much plainer than in Hebrews 1:5. The question is rhetorical, with…
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Slightly Obsessed #193: The Day America Looked Up
The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and remarkable Day of the Lord comes. – Acts 2:20 (Holman Christian Standard Bible) They came from around the world, transfixed by the spectacle. They filled motels, jammed the highways, and staked their claim on a piece of history as…
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Slightly Obsessed #192: Heaven Is Calling: Consider Jesus
Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession. – Hebrews 3:1 Some days we can barely hear it. Other days it drives us to our knees. But it’s always there, a persistent tug in our souls. Whether we trudge through our days or chase the…
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Slightly Obsessed #191: Give the Gift of Courage
Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing. – 1 Thessalonians 5:11 My father lay propped up in the hospital bed, his face ashen against the white sheets. My stepmother and I huddled around him in the cramped space of the progressive care unit in which he recuperated. He had…
