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Slightly Obsessed #062: Pure Worship
“Present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, which is your spiritual service of worship.” – Romans 12:1 What is worship? Three huge screens beam the words so everyone in the entire building can see them. The worship team moves seamlessly from one song to the next as the service begins. A few…
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Slightly Obsessed #061: A Faith That’s Real
Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. -Matthew 6:1 The need for validation is a powerful drug. In today’s world, it often leads contrive a public profile not entirely realistic. A recent social media meme depicts a…
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Slightly Obsessed #060: A Rose without Thorns
For God so loved…. – John 3:16 Holidays are a set up for disappointment. My mother used to say the only thing holidays were good for was to set people up for hurt and disappointment. It seems cynical, but unfortunately, it’s often true. The world’s expectations for these contrived celebrations definitely set us up…
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Slightly Obsessed #059: Beyond the Grave
For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. – 2 Corinthians 5:1 He pulled into the nursing home parking lot with a heavy heart. He opened the mechanical door and it…
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Slightly Obsessed #058: When Dead Men Speak
When the Lord saw her, He felt compassion for her, and said to her, ‘Do not weep.’ – Luke 7:13 The widow shuffled behind the men who carried the body of her only son. Despair gripped every line of her face. Her thin shoulders sagged under the weight of a life without hope. …
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Slightly Obsessed #057: Still, He waits
So the LORD said, ‘I have pardoned them according to your word; but indeed, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the LORD.’ – Numbers 14:20-21 It’s been a tough day in God’s world. The images from television and Internet have been especially sobering. Across the planet,…
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Slightly Obsessed #056: The Wisdom from Above
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy. – James 3:17 James D. Watson, the co-discoverer of DNA and a Nobel Prize winner, was an avowed secular humanist and evolutionist. In 2007, he ignited a public firestorm for a comment…
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Slightly Obsessed #055: Angel Voices
And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased.’ – Luke 2:13-14 In Nazareth, one man really appreciated census time. The innkeeper stepped into the street to get more provisions…
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Slightly Obsessed #054: The Heart of a Child
But Jesus said, ‘Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.’ -Matthew 19:14 Christmas is for children, just like salvation. We started celebrating Christmas early the year our daughter flew out with her family for the holidays. Long before Thanksgiving,…
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Slightly Obsessed #053: Time Out
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful. – Colossians 3:15 In a holiday season careening out of control, I long for the Deliverer whose arrival we celebrate. It happens every year. I begin the holidays with a fresh thrill of expectation…
