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Slightly Obsessed #248: My Father’s America
Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? -Francis Scott Key All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles…
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Slightly Obsessed #247: What The Prodigal Never Saw
And Jesus said, “A man had two sons.The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate that falls to me.’ So he divided his wealth between them.And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey into a distant country, and there…
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Slightly Obsessed #245: Are You Rooted?
Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test? …
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Slightly Obsessed #244: Where Does God Live?
Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. …
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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…
