Moving into Part II of our mini-series last week, we focused our time together on the final verse in Christ’s sayings on being salt & light. That is, we are to live in such a way, that when we go about exercising the contents of our redeemed hearts, with word and action, the people in our life see it, and God is glorified by them. The driving force behind every aspect of our entire life, be it word or deed, is to be for nothing but the glory of God. Every hobby, behavior, vot

In Part One of this “mini-series” on the famous ‘Salt & Light’ Verses (Matt. 5:13-16) last week, we took a slight step backwards in our thoughts as we set the stage for the Verses themselves. Yes, we could have very easily dove right in, explaining the metaphors that Christ used (which we will  do in the coming weeks), but because all of us hunger and thirst for righteousness, we should do all we can to go as deep as we can.  We spent a majority of our time together last wee

As we continue through our study of the Gospel according to Matthew, and, leaving The Beatitudes, we are immediately met with an equally well known section of Scripture. The Salt & Light verses. When we closed out The Beatitudes last week, we saw that each of the eight were a description of the Christian. Not all-encompassing, mind you, Scripture is overflowing with adjectives about those with renewed hearts. But as it stands, those eight “all or none” sayings from Christ, d