Tag: Bible
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Slightly Obsessed #174 Your Lord Is Coming: Like the Days of Noah, Part 4
Then the LORD said to Noah, ‘Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this time.’ – Genesis 7:1 The Bible paints a picture of the days prior to Noah’s flood as one of a generation lost. In a world filled with…
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Slightly Obsessed #173: Your Lord Is Coming: Like the Days of Noah, Part 3
By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death. He could not be found, because God had taken him away. For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. – Hebrews 11:5 (Berean Study Bible) The Enoch Generation A discussion of Noah’s flood as it speaks to…
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Slightly Obsessed #171: Your Lord Is Coming: Like the Days of Noah
[In the coming weeks, Slightly Obsessed will explore the Scriptures regarding end-time events and what Jesus meant when He said the coming of the Son of Man will be “just like the days of Noah.”] Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming. – Matthew 24:42…
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Slightly Obsessed #169: Shut Out the Lies
The LORD will fight for you while you keep silent. – Exodus 14:14 I sat on the bed, heart in shreds. An accusation had been hurled at me on social media, again, by the same person. Everything in me fought to defend myself against the lies. Deep inside, though, I knew it was…
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Slightly Obsessed #168: White-Out
Your Word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path. – Psalm 119:105 The sky hung heavy and gray as I drove my daughter down the long river road to town for her piano lesson. Our valley rarely sees much snow most winters, so I didn’t worry about the…
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Slightly Obsessed #167: The Year I Broke Christmas
And He who sits on the throne said, ‘Behold, I am making all things new.’ – Revelation 21:5 It’s all a blur in my head, the snippet of a memory more than fifty years back. I couldn’t have been more than five and my little brother was two or three. Christmas came late…
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Slightly Obsessed #166: Take Courage
Matthew 9:20-22; Mark 5:25-34; Luke 8:43-48 Daughter, take courage; your faith has made you well. – Matthew 9:22 The twelve-year-old daughter of an important synagogue ruler named Jairus lay dying. Jairus entreated Jesus to come and heal her. As Jesus walked to the man’s house, the crowds pressed against him on every side. The…
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Slightly Obsessed #165: We Need Each Other
“If someone says, ‘I love God,’ and hates his brother, he is a liar, for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.” -1 John 4:20 It’s happened to me. It’s probably happened to you. Something is said on social media. Somebody…
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Slightly Obsessed #162: Are You Spreading Epignosis?
I pray that the fellowship of your faith may become effective through the knowledge of every good thing which is in you for Christ’s sake. – Philemon 1:6 Can you catch epignosis from your friends? It depends on who your friends are. It sounds like the name of a disease you might pick up in…
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Slightly Obsessed #159: Volcano
The LORD spoke to you face to face at the mountain from the midst of the fire. – Deuteronomy 5:4 Our youngest son was married in a beautiful ceremony last weekend. For us, it was the culmination of months of harried activity not only preparing for the wedding, but restoring our tired-looking yard for…
