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 […]
Slightly Obsessed #247: What The Prodigal Never Saw
When a Father Grieves And Jesus said, “A man had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate that falls to me.’ So he divided his wealth between them. And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey into a distant country, and […]
Slightly Obsessed #246: There Is Hope
when the world seems out of control “This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. The LORD’S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. ‘The LORD is my portion,’ says my soul, ‘Therefore I have […]
Slightly Obsessed #245: Are You Rooted?
Have You been living on the faith of others? “Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test?” […]
Slightly Obsessed #244: Where Does God Live?
Where is God? “Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. […]
Slightly Obsessed #243: Dance the Night Away
What Will You Do When the Earth Shakes? “Let them praise His name with dancing; Let them sing praises to Him with timbrel and lyre. For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the afflicted ones with salvation.” -Psalm 149:3-4 (NASB) It had been a quiet afternoon on the last […]
Slightly Obsessed #242: The Year God Sent Us to Our Rooms
What Are We Learning from the Pandemic? “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 (NASB) The children are squabbling. They haven’t done a single thing you asked them to […]
Slightly Obsessed #241: How Then Shall We Live?
How Would You Spend Today If you Knew Jesus was Coming? “Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, […]
Slightly Obsessed #240: The Bridegroom Is Coming
“He who testifies to these things says, ‘Yes, I am coming quickly.’ Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.” -Revelation 22:20 Nothing is by chance in God’s redemptive plan. It was not an accident that Jesus is described in Scripture as the Bridegroom and the Church as His Bride. These are not just poetic pictures. In His Word, God has told us […]
Slightly Obsessed #239: A Parent’s Pain, a Father’s Heart by Pamela Thorson
“And he got up and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him, and felt compassion for him, and ran and embraced him, and kissed him.” -Luke 15:20 Hello. My name is Pam Thorson. I am a parent. A parenting book entitled, “Parenting Is Hard and […]