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Slightly Obsessed #199: Let No One Take Your Song
Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song, And His praise in the congregation of the godly ones. – Psalm 149:1 An Age under Judgment A 2014 Fox News poll reported fifty-eight percent of voters polled in the U. S. believe the world is, in their words, “going to hell in a handbasket.”*…
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Slightly Obsessed #193: The Day America Looked Up
The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and remarkable Day of the Lord comes. – Acts 2:20 (Holman Christian Standard Bible) They came from around the world, transfixed by the spectacle. They filled motels, jammed the highways, and staked their claim on a piece of history as…
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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 #097: Who Will Tell Them?
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when…
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Slightly Obsessed #075: The New Nazis
When the Nazis came for the communists, I did not speak out; As I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I did not speak out; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; As I was not a trade…
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Slightly Obsessed #056: The Wisdom from Above
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy. – James 3:17 James D. Watson, the co-discoverer of DNA and a Nobel Prize winner, was an avowed secular humanist and evolutionist. In 2007, he ignited a public firestorm for a comment…
