Tag: Bible
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Slightly Obsessed #145: Are You Smarter than Your Enemy?
Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves. -Matthew 10:16 My witty, irreverent aunt lived her entire life in the deep South. She worked for many years as a registered nurse and taught nursing until her death from cancer at an…
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Slightly Obsessed #144: Do Miracles Still Happen?
You are the God who performs miracles. – Psalm 77:14 (God’s Word Translation) For the last couple of years, our family has been hit with a series of losses. We said a last goodbye to several beloved family members and friends. Gains in other areas of our lives were reversed; our days loaded…
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Slightly Obsessed #143: Roller Coasters, Unicorns, and Facing Our Misconceptions
Jesus answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’” – Matthew 4:4 (Jubilee Bible 2000) She sits nervously in the seat of the kiddie roller coaster, not comforted by the arms encircling her. The ride clacks…
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Slightly Obsessed #142: Into His Death – Why We Are Baptized
There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. – Ephesians 4:4-6 It’s the gospel proclaimed all over again. It’s Easter…
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Slightly Obsessed #141: You Are Stronger Than the Thing that Controls You
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. -2 Corinthians 10:3-4 A stronghold is the thing you give in to in the darkness. Not long after God’s people…
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Slightly Obsessed #140: Your Life Matters
By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. – Hebrews 11:7 Do you ever feel invisible? Does it seem like your struggles…
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Slightly Obsessed #139: Why Regret Can Be a Good Thing
The Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had told him, ‘Before a rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.’ And he went out and wept bitterly. – Luke 22:61-62 He was hot, and he was cold, but the fisherman named Peter was never…
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Slightly Obsessed #138: Do You Long for a Refuge?
The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge. – Psalm 18:2 The school bus groaned to a stop, flung open its doors, and belched out two children. The boy bounded up the driveway to freedom like a foal let out to pasture.…
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Slightly Obsessed #137: This Old House
For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. – Hebrews 3:4 The last few years we’ve been tearing into our aging log home to give it some new life. Raising five children took its toll on the place, and it’s been looking tired. But there’s one thing…
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Slightly Obsessed #136: What Is an Atheist?
Remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. – Ephesians 2:12 ATHEOS, Atheist: godless; destitute of God; given up by God and excluded from communion with God* What is an…
