Tag: Bible
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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…
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Slightly Obsessed #180: At the Brink
Now the LORD said to Abram, Go forth from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house, To the land which I will show you. – Genesis 12:1 Today, the ancient Biblical town of Haran sits in ruins. But in the time of Abram, later given the new name of Abraham, it…
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Slightly Obsessed #179: He’s Alive!
I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades. -Revelation 1:18 Israel prayed for a Messiah, but God arrived. They yearned for freedom from Rome, but He offered them deliverance from themselves. They looked for a…
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Slightly Obsessed #177: Feet of Clay: When Your Best Isn’t Enough
Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen. For our ancestors won God’s approval by it. – Hebrews 11:1 (HCSB) Ever feel like a failure? I do, and often. My desk overflows with a never-ending pile of unfinished work. My job as a fulltime caregiver is…
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Slightly Obsessed #176: Why Noah Should Matter to Us
Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did. – Genesis 6:22 Noah had already lived much of his life when God called him to build the ark. He was not a young man when the fate of humanity was placed upon his shoulders. It was a fearful…
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Slightly Obsessed #175: The Scarlet Thread
How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? – Hebrews 9:14 Two spies lay hidden in darkness as the king’s men searched for them in the night. Word of their presence in…
