Pamela Thorson
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Slightly Obsessed #253: As It Began to Dawn – When God Invades Our Despair
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. – Henry David Thoreau, 1854. My Southern-born mom put it less eloquently – but more graphically – when she declared, “I’m…
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Slightly Obsessed #253: As It Began to Dawn
When God Invades Our Despair Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week…. -Matthew 28:1 So when it was evening on that…
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Slightly Obsessed #252: Traditions, Expectations, and a Pandemic
What is left when a pandemic takes down our world? And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, ‘Glory to…
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Slightly Obsessed #251: Rosh Hashanah – We Will Be Changed
Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for…
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Slightly Obsessed #250: Goliath Will Go Down
The Philistine also said to David, ‘Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the beasts of the field.’ Then David said to the…
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Slightly Obsessed #249: Some Are Born to Weep
Oh that my head were waters And my eyes a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night For the slain of the daughter of my people! – Jeremiah 9:1…
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Slightly Obsessed #248: My Father’s America
Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? -Francis Scott Key All these died in faith, without…
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Slightly Obsessed #247: What The Prodigal Never Saw
And Jesus said, “A man had two sons.The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate that falls to me.’ So he divided his wealth…
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Slightly Obsessed #246: There Is Hope
This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. The LORD’S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail. They are…
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Slightly Obsessed #245: Are You Rooted?
Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test? …
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Slightly Obsessed #244: Where Does God Live?
Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You…
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Slightly Obsessed #243: Dance the Night Away
Let them praise His name with dancing; Let them sing praises to Him with timbrel and lyre. For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the afflicted ones…