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House of Love

Yesterday started off the season of Advent when we get to expectantly await to celebrate the birth of Jesus and the second coming of Christ. I feel like Advent is the perfect time to discuss this topic of community. Sometimes I feel like people get so caught up in the manmade laws of the church that they forget Jesus’ words in the Bible. The Bible is the guide book for how our Father wants us to live our lives for Him. Lately I could feel God really putting this on my heart. Church communities can be a blessing but they also have some people sprinkled in that suck the love Jesus tells us to share right out of the air. I have experienced this more so growing up and I know many people who have experienced this same thing. If you are one of these people this one is for you. God has called us to be in community with others, that’s how we grow and learn in our faith. I know there have been things said to people, and they have walked away from church and not come back; it hurts me so much to see…

Salt

I have been doing a deeper study into the book of Matthew for awhile,and I have so enjoyed it. I have learned so many things and even from stories that I have known about most of my life. In chapter 5 verse 13 of Matthew he starts talking about how we are the salt of the earth, and what happens to our salt when it has lost its taste. I have never really dived deep into this but for some reason that morning it just struck me,and I wanted to understand more. The distinctness that salt gives us has taken on a new meaning for me. 13 “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has list its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for any thing except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.” Matthew 5:13 Our job as children of God is bring His love, His truth to the world. We are to show His love by living it out in our daily lives. When we volunteer for our community people get a taste of our salt and see the light…