Tag: Bible
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Slightly Obsessed #107: The Mark of a Believer
If someone says ‘I love God,’ and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one whom does not love his brother who he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. – 1 John 4:20 He sat perched on the examination table, his gangly legs hanging over the side.…
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Slightly Obsessed #106: Easter, a Time for Hope
But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. -1 Corinthians 15:20-22 Today…
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Slightly Obsessed #105: Stardust
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. -2 Corinthians 4:7 (NIV) I awaken groggily to a bright light in my face as morning announces itself with fanfare. The sun invades the blinds covering our large downstairs bedroom window…
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Slightly Obsessed #104: Falling Snow Geese and Why It doesn’t Pay to Worry
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened. – Mark Twain The headline read, “Thousands of snow geese fall dead from sky in Idaho.” According to the report on msn.com, at least two thousand migrating geese were recently found dead in eastern…
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Slightly Obsessed #103: The Tree of Life
He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, Which yields its fruit in its season, And its leaf does not wither; And in whatever he does, he prospers. – Psalm 1:3 It was cold outside, the perfect wintry day for a visit to the local home and garden store…
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Slightly Obsessed #102: Seize the Flavor, Church
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. – Matthew 5:13 Imagine a world without salt. An elderly man sat in the doctor’s office,…
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Slightly Obsessed #100: When Perspective Shatters Our Pettiness
For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; in the future, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge,…
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Slightly Obsessed #099: A Daddy’s Love
You have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, ‘Abba! Father!’ – Romans 8:15 The child in the old black-and-white print can’t be more than several months old. Wisps of blonde hair frame a cherubic face. Her wide, toothless grin lights up the room. She is perched on…
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Slightly Obsessed #098: Five Ways to Fight Fear
The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear Him, And rescues them. – Psalm 34:7 The images were surreal, as if replayed from a Hollywood movie. But the mayhem, blood, and horror were very real as a French SWAT team stormed a Parisian shop and freed the hostages taken by a…
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Slightly Obsessed #097: Who Will Tell Them?
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when…
