The best way to ruin someone
Today’s background photo is Rock Salt … perched on a pile of rocks.Throughout ancient times, if someone wanted to ruin their enemy, one of the most effective ways of ruining someone else was to destroy their land by…
Fake Christians
Most people would look at this bag of Epsom Salt (pictured in the background photo) and naturally accept it as being salt. Of course it is salt … the bag labels it as “salt.” It is white and…
Hard times leave us “smoked” and “seasoned”
The salt pictured in today's background photo was a gift from a friend … smoked, seasoned salt (personally created in his Traeger smoker).We all are a bit like these smoked, seasoned salts. We all go through “fiery trials”…
If it’s not salty … then what good is it?
Jesus’s teaching of “You are the salt of the earth” was recorded in three of the four gospels (Matthew, Mark, & Luke), and in each instance, Jesus’s teaching emphasizes the fact that if the salt is no longer…
You are the Salt of the earth
Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount (Matthew, chapters 5-7) was radical for those who first heard it, because in this sermon Jesus was bringing to an end the centuries-old, well-established way of living according to the Law, and ushering…
Bearing Kingdom Fruit – Different Stages
In looking at our background photo, this is what bearing Kingdom Fruit looks like … some fruit is ripe & ready for harvest; some fruit is still red but beginning to turn ripe; some fruit is in the…
Bearing Kingdom Fruit – Windows of Opportunity
The third week of July, these plums were hanging heavy on the tree … ripe and ready for harvest. But what if the third week of July isn’t convenient for harvesting the plums? What if there are too…
Bearing Kingdom Fruit – It’s Not What It Appears
From a distance, these growing tomatoes look fabulous and healthy. From up above, these growing tomatoes look fabulous and healthy. But once you get down below … where no one sees … it is clear that these growing…
Bearing Kingdom Fruit – Tiny Little Mites
Sin starts out small … like a tiny little mite on a mint leaf. It’s so tiny we don’t even notice it. But sin doesn’t stay small. It multiplies. It grows. Before we know it, the sin in…
Bearing Kingdom Fruit – Pollination
There are two vastly different zucchini pictured here … one is large, green, & healthy; the other is tiny, yellow, & shriveled. What is the difference?? The difference lies in the fact that one zucchini was properly pollinated; …