Tag: Bible
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Slightly Obsessed #243: Dance the Night Away
Let them praise His name with dancing; Let them sing praises to Him with timbrel and lyre. For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the afflicted ones with salvation. – Psalm 149:3-4 (NASB) I was working in the house one quiet afternoon on the last day of March when…
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Slightly Obsessed #242: The Year God Sent Us to Our Rooms
“All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.” -Hebrews 12:11 The children are squabbling. They haven’t done a single thing you asked them to do all day. You talk to them, bribe…
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Slightly Obsessed #240: The Bridegroom Is Coming
He who testifies to these things says, ‘Yes, I am coming quickly.’ Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. – Revelation 22:20 Have you ever wondered why Jesus used the concept of a bride and groom to describe His relationship with the Church? It was not an accident that Jesus is referred to in Scripture as the Bridegroom…
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Slightly Obsessed #239: A Parent’s Pain, a Father’s Heart
And he got up and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him, and felt compassion for him, and ran and embraced him, and kissed him. – Luke 15:20 Hello. My name is Pam Thorson. I am a parent. A parenting book entitled, Parenting Is Hard…
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Slightly Obsessed #238: When the Night Closes In
God said: ‘I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following Me and has not carried out My commands.’ And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the LORD all night. – 1 Samuel 15:11 For years, I slept like a log. The demands of a growing household often…
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Slightly Obsessed #237: Social Media Stoning
Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool. – Ecclesiastes 7:9 Blood-thirsty mobs have always existed. But revenge was a simpler act to carry out in the days before computers. People just stoned the offenders. The wounds were physical and usually fatal. It was not supposed…
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Slightly Obsessed #235 Lose Your Reputation and Gain a Life
Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy…
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Slightly Obsessed #234: The Fear of Sudden Glug
Do not be afraid of sudden fear Nor of the onslaught of the wicked when it comes; For the LORD will be your confidence And will keep your foot from being caught. – Proverbs 3:24-26 Our son’s pet Solo is a street dog adopted from a local humane shelter. Solo makes up in sweetness, though,…
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Slightly Obsessed #233: When God Tears It Up
For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and…
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Slightly Obsessed 232: Beyond the Veil of Tears
My soul waits in silence for God only; From Him is my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation, My stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken. – Psalm 62:1-2 One striking aspect of Christ’s time on earth is how little He revealed of His own struggles. We know little of His sorrows…
