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Slightly Obsessed #150: Between Hope and the Harvest
And hope does not disappoint. – Romans 5:5 Hope lives in my yard. It spills from baskets. It nestles in pots and peeks out from a layer of red mulch. It…
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Slightly Obsessed #149: The Mystery Revealed
Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret…
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Slightly Obsessed #148 Ambushed By Fear
Yet You are holy, O You who are enthroned upon the praises of Israel. – Psalm 22:3 Praise Is the golden elixir of the soul. It oils our rusty relationship with…
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Slightly Obsessed #147: Declare War on Your Self
He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, And he who rules his spirit, than he who captures a city. – Proverbs 16:32 A guy pulls a gun…
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Slightly Obsessed #146: Is It Possible to Fall from Grace?
You have fallen from grace. – Galatians 5:4 He stands sweating in the spotlight, fending off a crush of media circling the podium at the scent of blood in the water.…
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Slightly Obsessed #145: Are You Smarter than Your Enemy?
Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves. -Matthew 10:16 My witty, irreverent aunt lived her entire life…
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Slightly Obsessed #144: Do Miracles Still Happen?
You are the God who performs miracles. – Psalm 77:14 (God’s Word Translation) For the last couple of years, our family has been hit with a series of losses. We…
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Slightly Obsessed #143: Roller Coasters, Unicorns, and Facing Our Misconceptions
Jesus answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’” – Matthew 4:4 (Jubilee Bible…
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Slightly Obsessed #142: Into His Death – Why We Are Baptized
There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all…
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Slightly Obsessed #141: You Are Stronger Than the Thing that Controls You
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction…
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Slightly Obsessed #140: Your Life Matters
By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an…
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Slightly Obsessed #139: Why Regret Can Be a Good Thing
The Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had told him, ‘Before a rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.’ And…
