Tag: Bible
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Slightly Obsessed #066: Unexpected
Now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming. – 1 John 2:28 Are we really supposed to be watching for Christ’s return? What does it matter, as long as we’re saved? One Christmas Eve the extended family…
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Slightly Obsessed #065: Fortress
He looks at the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smoke. – Psalm 104:32 Where do you run when your world shakes? This week television cameras caught the moment a 4.4 quake rocked parts of Southern California. Newscasts were in progress when the quake hit. Replays of the footage showed…
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Slightly Obsessed #064: Skin for Skin – The Man Who Proved Satan Wrong
Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life. However, put forth Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh; he will curse You to Your face. – Satan to God (Job 2:4-5) Do you ever wonder where God is when something bad happens to…
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Slightly Obsessed #063: Unbowed
Then He said to them, ‘Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and to God the things that are God’s.’ – Matthew 22:21 Bow or Burn The new statue of Nebuchadnezzar stood in all its golden ninety-foot glory, erected to honor the Babylonian king. Nebuchadnezzar planned a very special celebration for…
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Slightly Obsessed #061: A Faith That’s Real
Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. -Matthew 6:1 The need for validation is a powerful drug. In today’s world, it often leads contrive a public profile not entirely realistic. A recent social media meme depicts a…
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Slightly Obsessed #060: A Rose without Thorns
For God so loved…. – John 3:16 Holidays are a set up for disappointment. My mother used to say the only thing holidays were good for was to set people up for hurt and disappointment. It seems cynical, but unfortunately, it’s often true. The world’s expectations for these contrived celebrations definitely set us up…
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Slightly Obsessed #059: Beyond the Grave
For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. – 2 Corinthians 5:1 He pulled into the nursing home parking lot with a heavy heart. He opened the mechanical door and it…
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Slightly Obsessed #058: When Dead Men Speak
When the Lord saw her, He felt compassion for her, and said to her, ‘Do not weep.’ – Luke 7:13 The widow shuffled behind the men who carried the body of her only son. Despair gripped every line of her face. Her thin shoulders sagged under the weight of a life without hope. …
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Slightly Obsessed #057: Still, He waits
So the LORD said, ‘I have pardoned them according to your word; but indeed, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the LORD.’ – Numbers 14:20-21 It’s been a tough day in God’s world. The images from television and Internet have been especially sobering. Across the planet,…
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Slightly Obsessed #056: The Wisdom from Above
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy. – James 3:17 James D. Watson, the co-discoverer of DNA and a Nobel Prize winner, was an avowed secular humanist and evolutionist. In 2007, he ignited a public firestorm for a comment…
