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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…
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Slightly Obsessed #157: Eyes Wide Open
And He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, ‘So, you men could not keep watch with Me for one hour?’ – Matthew 26:40 Again He came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. – Matthew 26:43 Then He came to the disciples and said to them, ‘Are…
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Slightly Obsessed #155: Armed and Dangerous
For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. – 2 Cor. 10:4 Never bring a knife to a gunfight. – Original source unknown The United States is embroiled in a battle over national security in the wake of recent shootings. A 2015 poll…
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Slightly Obsessed #154: Outcry
I will go down now, and see if they have done entirely according to its outcry, which has come to Me; and if not, I will know. – Genesis 18:21 Our children love telling their stories of growing up in a log cabin. Now that they’re all adults and have their own lives,…
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Slightly Obsessed #153: Why 2 Chronicles 7:14 May not Mean What You Think
If… My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land. – Chronicles 7:14 King David longed to build the Temple of God for his people. But…
