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Slightly Obsessed #254: Be Not Deceived
But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to distinguish between good and evil. – Hebrews 5:14 We walked through the tall, dry grass with a forester friend as we checked out the progress of the fledgling evergreens on our property overlooking the river valley. The men sauntered down…
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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 so low I have to look up to see a snake’s belly.” It’s hard to get much lower than the dirt. And that’s…
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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 God in the highest, And on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased.’ When the angels had gone away from them…
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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 the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. – 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 When Will…
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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 Philistine, ‘You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of 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 It’s Okay to Cry He is known as the weeping prophet. Born in Anathoth, the son of a Hebrew priest, Jeremiah lived approximately…
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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 receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles…
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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 between them.And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey into a distant country, and there…
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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 new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. ‘The LORD is my portion,’ says my soul, ‘Therefore I have hope in Him.’…
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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? …
