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Slightly Obsessed #082: When the Problem Isn’t the Problem
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend’s forehead. – Chinese Proverb You know it’s happened to you. That one guy in your office or your class constantly needles you. He cajoles you into taking on more of the work he’s supposed to be doing. Or the new female…
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Slightly Obsessed #081: Yearning to Be Free
Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding, Whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check. -Psalm 32:9 She sits in the coolness of the green grass in the shade of a large Austrian pine. It’s a sparkling fall day. A hint of autumn…
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Slightly Obsessed #080: Limitless
So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to…
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Slightly Obsessed #079: Made in His Image, Part 2
And Jesus said to them, ‘Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.’ – Mark 12:17 Whose image is stamped into your soul? They slithered into the Temple, snakes on the hunt. A group of Pharisees and Herodians sent by the Jewish leaders conspired to…
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Slightly Obsessed #078: In the Image of God, Part 1
Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…’ God created man in His own image, in the image of God. He created him; male and female He created them. – Genesis 1:26-27 You were born to create. Do you ever wonder what God looks like, and what it…
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Slightly Obsessed: 077: In the Belly of the Whale
I called out of my distress to the LORD, and He answered me. – Jonah 2:2 God gave a tough assignment in a big city to His servant Jonah, a mission the prophet was loathe to accept. The ancient city of Nineveh took three days to walk through and is thought to have…
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Slightly Obsessed #076: Prism
Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, ‘I am the Light of the world.’ – John 8:12 Our newborn son was very ill. Kevin lay in a sterile room fighting pneumonia. He was just three weeks old; so tiny, so new on this earth, already having to fight for life. I stayed with…
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Slightly Obsessed #075: The New Nazis
When the Nazis came for the communists, I did not speak out; As I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I did not speak out; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; As I was not a trade…
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Slightly Obsessed #074: Transplant
Awake, O north wind, And come, O south! Blow upon my garden, That its spices may flow out. – Solomon 4:16 Mother grew up in the South and often longed to surround herself with reminders of her old haunts after she and dad moved to the Pacific Northwest. One thing she really wanted was…
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Slightly Obsessed #073: First Love
I know your deeds and you toil and perseverance, and that you cannot tolerate evil men, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and you found them to be false; and you have perseverance and have endured for My name’s sake, and have not grown weary.…
