Bible
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Slightly Obsessed #254: Be Not Deceived
But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to distinguish between good and evil. – Hebrews 5:14 We walked through the tall, dry grass with a forester friend as we checked out the progress of the fledgling evergreens on our property overlooking the river valley. The men sauntered down…
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Slightly Obsessed #253: As It Began to Dawn – When God Invades Our Despair
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. – Henry David Thoreau, 1854. My Southern-born mom put it less eloquently – but more graphically – when she declared, “I’m so low I have to look up to see a snake’s belly.” It’s hard to get much lower than the dirt. And that’s…
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Slightly Obsessed #253: As It Began to Dawn
When God Invades Our Despair Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week…. -Matthew 28:1 So when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus…
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Slightly Obsessed #252: Traditions, Expectations, and a Pandemic
What is left when a pandemic takes down our world? And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased.’ When the angels had gone away from them…
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The Rapture – Christianity’s Most Preposterous Belief – By Dr. Chuck Missler
The Rapture Christianity’s Most Preposterous Belief By Dr. Chuck Missler There continue to be many questions concerning the “Rapture” of the Church and its apparent contrast with the “Second Coming” of Jesus Christ. Where does this strange view come from? Is the term “rapture” even in the Bible? Clearly, the idea of the Rapture can…
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Slightly Obsessed #251: Rosh Hashanah – We Will Be Changed
Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. – 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 When Will…
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Slightly Obsessed #250: Goliath Will Go Down
The Philistine also said to David, ‘Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the beasts of the field.’ Then David said to the Philistine, ‘You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the…
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Slightly Obsessed #249: Some Are Born to Weep
Oh that my head were waters And my eyes a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night For the slain of the daughter of my people! – Jeremiah 9:1 It’s Okay to Cry He is known as the weeping prophet. Born in Anathoth, the son of a Hebrew priest, Jeremiah lived approximately…