Tag: Life is Beautiful
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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 #174 Your Lord Is Coming: Like the Days of Noah, Part 4
Then the LORD said to Noah, ‘Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this time.’ – Genesis 7:1 The Bible paints a picture of the days prior to Noah’s flood as one of a generation lost. In a world filled with…
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Slightly Obsessed #138: Do You Long for a Refuge?
The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge. – Psalm 18:2 The school bus groaned to a stop, flung open its doors, and belched out two children. The boy bounded up the driveway to freedom like a foal let out to pasture.…
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Slightly Obsessed #132: Transformed
But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit. – 2 Corinthians 3:18 The skeleton lay in its dusty box, long hidden from the sun. I knelt down and…
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Slightly Obsessed #098: Five Ways to Fight Fear
The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear Him, And rescues them. – Psalm 34:7 The images were surreal, as if replayed from a Hollywood movie. But the mayhem, blood, and horror were very real as a French SWAT team stormed a Parisian shop and freed the hostages taken by a…
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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 #045: Play On
When there is no light by which to read the music, those who know their God by heart play on. –Joni Eareckson Tada She sat on a stage at a large conference in the Philippines, excited to be in that exotic country. Quadriplegic artist and disability advocate Joni Eareckson Tada enjoyed the musical performance…
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Slightly Obsessed #025: Sing
Our real songs begin with our sacrifices. – Corrie Ten Boom King Hezekiah’s father greatly angered God during his reign in Judah. Before his death, he raided the house of God, closed its doors, and worshiped the gods of the land. God’s house remained closed and desecrated until his death. Hezekiah became king after…
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Slightly Obsessed #016: Beautiful Heritage
Indeed, my heritage is beautiful to me. – Psalm 16:6 Their stories of faith and sacrifice are repeated around the world. Jim and Juanita pastor a small church nestled in the heartland of Idaho. In the winter they get up early every Sunday morning to fire up the pellet stove that heats the…
