Becoming light and salt is a dual thing. We do it because it seasons and brightens the lives of others. But we also do it because in the becoming of light and salt, our own lives are changed.
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Good advice makes life better, often bits easier
But faith has to go deeper.
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The Lord is light, salvation — it must remain so for us in order to live an optimal Christian life
That is so, and it must be so, and it also must remain so.
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Has the cross done what it was prophetically promised to do?
Has it, indeed, turned hearts back to our fathers and our fathers to us; back to our mothers and our mothers to us. Back to our brothers and our sisters, and even back to ourselves? One wonders.
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Do we hear the voice of the shepherd?
And do we follow?
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These stories of healing, faith have much to share, say to us
This two-in-one story of healing and faith has much to share and much to say to us.
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We see and hear the Promise in Christ
The same promise that finally that long-cascading procession of Old Testament names could finally discover: the Son of the Most High God indeed was fulfilling it all.
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What would be considered ‘our treasure’?
Or would you finally admit: “I am full. No more! One more bite and I will burst!”
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Why are you terrified?
Maybe this God, in all kinds of ways and through all kinds of things — and in both good and bad times, and in joy and pain and sorrow — maybe this God truly has come to his people.
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‘Live by faith’ is the mantra
These parables provide understanding and help us to be able to welcome the life of God’s kingdom into our spirit and our souls.
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