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Slightly Obsessed #102: Seize the Flavor, Church
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. – Matthew 5:13 Imagine a world without salt. An elderly man sat in the doctor’s office,…
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Slightly Obsessed #101: God Doesn’t Need Our Opinions
Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand. – Romans 14:4 They are legion. Opinions on every imaginable subject multiply daily in the primal soup we call the Internet. Cloaked in…
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Slightly Obsessed #100: When Perspective Shatters Our Pettiness
For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; in the future, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge,…
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Slightly Obsessed #099: A Daddy’s Love
You have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, ‘Abba! Father!’ – Romans 8:15 The child in the old black-and-white print can’t be more than several months old. Wisps of blonde hair frame a cherubic face. Her wide, toothless grin lights up the room. She is perched on…
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Slightly Obsessed #098: Five Ways to Fight Fear
The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear Him, And rescues them. – Psalm 34:7 The images were surreal, as if replayed from a Hollywood movie. But the mayhem, blood, and horror were very real as a French SWAT team stormed a Parisian shop and freed the hostages taken by a…
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Slightly Obsessed #097: Who Will Tell Them?
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when…
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Slightly Obsessed #096: Are You Haunted by Loneliness?
Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there. – Joss Whedon Jesus said to the twelve, ‘You do not want to go away also, do you?’ – John 6:67 I sat at the back of the church next to my friends, basking in the glow of a beautiful Sunday morning service. At the…
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Slightly Obsessed #095: The Best Gifts
You do not have because you do not ask. – James 4:2 The big box stood conspicuously in the airport. Shaped like a large present but sporting a huge monitor, it displayed a cheery message inviting airline travelers to the screen to swipe their tickets there. People like me who are naturally suspicious…
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Slightly Obsessed #094: Pearl
The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls, and upon finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it. – Matthew 13:45-46 Throughout the ages, the lure of finding fabled treasure has captivated the imaginations of men. The hope of a pot…
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Slightly Obsessed #093: Is It Possible to Find the Right Church?
And all those who had believed were together and had all things in common; and they began selling their property and possessions and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have need. Day by day continuing with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness…
