Pamela Thorson
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Slightly Obsessed #176: Why Noah Should Matter to Us
Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did. – Genesis 6:22 Noah had already lived much of his life when God called him to build the ark. He was not a young man when the fate of humanity was placed upon his shoulders. It was a fearful…
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Slightly Obsessed #175: The Scarlet Thread
How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? – Hebrews 9:14 Two spies lay hidden in darkness as the king’s men searched for them in the night. Word of their presence in…
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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 #173: Your Lord Is Coming: Like the Days of Noah, Part 3
By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death. He could not be found, because God had taken him away. For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. – Hebrews 11:5 (Berean Study Bible) The Enoch Generation A discussion of Noah’s flood as it speaks to…
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Slightly Obsessed #172: Your Lord Is Coming: Like the Days of Noah, Part 2
Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. – Genesis 6:5 Theories abound on the timing and manner of the return of Jesus Christ. It’s not hard to find Scriptures to support opposing viewpoints, and…
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Slightly Obsessed #171: Your Lord Is Coming: Like the Days of Noah
[In the coming weeks, Slightly Obsessed will explore the Scriptures regarding end-time events and what Jesus meant when He said the coming of the Son of Man will be “just like the days of Noah.”] Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming. – Matthew 24:42…
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Slightly Obsessed #170: Fully Possessed
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. – Peter 2:9 (Berean Study Bible) They march. They curse, rant, and riot. They spew their rage all over social…
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Slightly Obsessed #169: Shut Out the Lies
The LORD will fight for you while you keep silent. – Exodus 14:14 I sat on the bed, heart in shreds. An accusation had been hurled at me on social media, again, by the same person. Everything in me fought to defend myself against the lies. Deep inside, though, I knew it was…
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Slightly Obsessed #168: White-Out
Your Word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path. – Psalm 119:105 The sky hung heavy and gray as I drove my daughter down the long river road to town for her piano lesson. Our valley rarely sees much snow most winters, so I didn’t worry about the…
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Slightly Obsessed #167: The Year I Broke Christmas
And He who sits on the throne said, ‘Behold, I am making all things new.’ – Revelation 21:5 It’s all a blur in my head, the snippet of a memory more than fifty years back. I couldn’t have been more than five and my little brother was two or three. Christmas came late…
