Tag: Christian
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Slightly Obsessed #088: The God Who Sees
The woodcarver… cuts down cedars or retrieves a cypress or oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow. It serves as fuel for man. He takes some of it to warm himself, and he kindles a fire and bakes his…
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Slightly Obsessed #087: One Love
Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke with me, saying, ‘Come here, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.’ – Revelation 21:9 The pain in their eyes is indescribable. It is a suffering worse than death,…
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Slightly Obsessed #086: Song in the Night
I will remember my song in the night. – Psalm 77:6 It could be a story in the news anywhere in the world today. This event, however, occurred two thousand years ago in the city of Philippi. Two Christian men were on their way to pray with other Christians when they were attacked…
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Slightly Obsessed #085: An Audience of One
Not to us, O Lord, not to us, But to Your name give glory – Psalm 115:1 “Here’s how to stand out in a noisy world,” the ad in my inbox promises. Like many writers, I’m regularly bombarded with advertising for the newest tips or book or webinar that will surely teach me how to…
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Slightly Obsessed #084: At the Edge of Faith
Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. – Hebrews 11:6 Remember when you first discovered God? Remember praying for the streetlight to change or the car to make it to…
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Slightly Obsessed #083: Dead Man Walking
He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars, says this: ‘I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.’ – Revelation 3:1 Without Christ, we are worse than zombies. With Him, we are more than conquerors. Someone once asked English evangelist…
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Slightly Obsessed #082: When the Problem Isn’t the Problem
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend’s forehead. – Chinese Proverb You know it’s happened to you. That one guy in your office or your class constantly needles you. He cajoles you into taking on more of the work he’s supposed to be doing. Or the new female…
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Slightly Obsessed #081: Yearning to Be Free
Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding, Whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check. -Psalm 32:9 She sits in the coolness of the green grass in the shade of a large Austrian pine. It’s a sparkling fall day. A hint of autumn…
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Slightly Obsessed #080: Limitless
So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to…
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Slightly Obsessed #079: Made in His Image, Part 2
And Jesus said to them, ‘Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.’ – Mark 12:17 Whose image is stamped into your soul? They slithered into the Temple, snakes on the hunt. A group of Pharisees and Herodians sent by the Jewish leaders conspired to…
