Slightly Obsessed #257: The Trifecta of Grace
“But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger….” -James 1:19 A Bible scholar recently posted some interesting news relating to current events on social media. The comment section was instantly bombarded […]
Slightly Obsessed #256: Silently, He Absorbs Your Pain
Because in much wisdom there is much grief; and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain. -Ecclesiastes 1:18 A heavy dawn groans into a new day, dragging an underbelly full of yesterday’s burdens. Like the clouds, I awaken gray. Whiny child inhabiting an elder’s body, my first lucid thought of the day is not one of […]
Slightly Obsessed #255: Never Look Away
Find the Savior in your storm Peter responded and said to Him, “Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water.” And He said, “Come!” And Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water, and came toward Jesus. But seeing the wind, he became frightened, and when he began to sink, […]
Slightly Obsessed #254: Be Not Deceived
Can you tell the difference between Good and evil? are you sure? “But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to distinguish between good and evil.” -Hebrews 5:14 We walked through the tall, dry grass with a forester friend as we checked out the progress of the […]
Slightly Obsessed #253: As It Began to Dawn
When God Invades Our Despair Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week…. -Matthew 28:1 So when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus […]
Slightly Obsessed #252: Traditions, Expectations, and a Pandemic
What is left when a pandemic takes down our world? In the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord suddenly stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were terribly […]
Slightly Obsessed #251: Rosh Hashanah – We Will Be Changed
Is the Last Trumpet About to Sound? “Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.” […]
Slightly Obsessed #250: Goliath Will Go Down
There’s a reason for the daily battles “The Philistine also said to David, ‘Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the beasts of the field.’ Then David said to the Philistine, ‘You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to […]
Slightly Obsessed #249: Some Are Born to Weep
It’s Okay to Cry Oh that my head were waters And my eyes a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night For the slain of the daughter of my people! -Jeremiah 9:1 (NASB) He is known as the weeping prophet. Jeremiah was born in Anathoth, the son of a Hebrew […]
Slightly Obsessed #248: My Father’s America
When Integrity Made a Nation Great “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 […]