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Slightly Obsessed #194 Heaven Is Calling: More than an Angel
For to which of the angels did God ever say: ‘You are my Son; today I have become Your Father’? Or again: ‘I will be His Father, and He will be My Son’? – Hebrews 1:5 (Berean Study Bible) God couldn’t have said it much plainer than in Hebrews 1:5. The question is rhetorical, with…
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Slightly Obsessed #193: The Day America Looked Up
The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and remarkable Day of the Lord comes. – Acts 2:20 (Holman Christian Standard Bible) They came from around the world, transfixed by the spectacle. They filled motels, jammed the highways, and staked their claim on a piece of history as…
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Slightly Obsessed #191: Give the Gift of Courage
Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing. – 1 Thessalonians 5:11 My father lay propped up in the hospital bed, his face ashen against the white sheets. My stepmother and I huddled around him in the cramped space of the progressive care unit in which he recuperated. He had…
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Slightly Obsessed #190: A Warbird’s Lesson
Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand. – Isaiah 41:10 On a recent hot July day, we took in an air show in our town. Vintage planes, including a couple of impressive old warbirds, sat majestically on the tarmac for inspection as we darted from wing to wing to find relief from…
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Slightly Obsessed #189: The Calling
Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine! – Isaiah 43:1 It must have been a haunting reminder. For three days his faith lay in the grave with the Savior’s body, tormented by the rooster’s crow mocking his proclamation of loyalty and public desertion. After the…
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Slightly Obsessed #187: He Reigns
The LORD reigns, let the earth rejoice. – Psalm 97:1 He reigns. Has a more beautiful declaration ever been written? Without that truth, we would have been forever lost to life after Eden. But because all authority belongs to God, Satan has no chance of wresting the universe from Him. Because God reigns, Jesus could…
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Slightly Obsessed #184: The Mark of Maturity
I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, for you were not yet able to receive it. – I Corinthians 3:2 The infant finishes his bottle and smiles contentedly. A trickle of milk courses down from the corner of his mouth. It’s a sweet scene because it’s what babies do. They are born with…
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Slightly Obsessed #183: He Knows Your Name
To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. – John 10 All sheep look alike to me. Defenseless, timid, and nondescript creatures, they tend to wander and get into trouble. When one falls, it needs help to get back on…
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Slightly Obsessed #182: When Speaking the Truth Makes You the Enemy
So have I become your enemy by telling you the truth? – Galatians 4:16 The apostle Paul loved the people of God. After his conversion to Christ, he spent his life not only establishing churches, but also ministering to their needs. He often had the unpleasant duty of confronting issues that threatened the fledgling church,…
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Slightly Obsessed #181: The Moment before the Moment of Revelation
God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, ‘Moses, Moses!’ And he said, ‘Here I am.’ Then He said, ‘Do not come near here; remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.’ He said also, ‘I am the God of your father, the…
