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Just a Little Bit Better — on the low bar of faith
In describing the path before them, Jesus offers metaphors of salt and light to inspire us, but the least we can do is not be total jerks.
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More Than Salt and Light — for Epiphany 5A
As Jesus continues preaching the sermon on the mount, modern readers need to remember the wider context of our greater calling.
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Fulfilling the Law
Getting at what Jesus is speaking to requires we remember the Beatitudes. And placing that above our own logic.
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Salty (Epiphany 5A)
In the passage right after the Beatitudes, Jesus describes his followers as being like salt. And a light, too.
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Still poor in spirit
Before we can talk about being “the salt of the earth” we must remember the Beatitudes and our poverty in spirit.
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Salt—remembering what’s important
In a world in which there is too much salt in our food, can we truly appreciate what salt even does for us?
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In the Mix
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus invites us to see how they are already blessed by God to be the way the kin-dom comes into the world.
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Between — The Big Crowds and the Big Sermon
We have a way of mistaking the fame of Jesus in the gospels for something mundane. Rather than what it is: a reflection of the mission.