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Following in the footsteps of the Acts of the
Apostles, written by St. Luke, Shepherd's Cross Christian Helps Ministry
exists by the grace of God to further the first century Apostolic tradition
serving in the Great Commission. |
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Part 1
Imagine A Large Cast Iron Country Kettle
For you vegans you may think of this without the stew meat. The kettle is simmering hot, full of rich orange carrots, red potatoes, white onions, beans, peppers and red tomatoes, accompanied with juicy stew meat. Walking slowly across the warm living room carpet, over the cold linoleum kitchen floor to your stainless steel refrigerator you open the icebox and a cool light breeze envelops your facial features. You begin to hear the sound of ice crackling as the dark diet cola makes it way, cascading down the sides of your frozen Waterford crystal glass. With glass in hand, you make your way to where the cooking kettle is. With the sounds of George Winston’s piano, playing in the background, lifting your chef spoon up to your anticipating taste buds you take a testing taste. To your astonishment what appears to be a feast for a King tastes flat. With cookbook now in hand you begin reviewing your stew ingredient list. You discern that the stock vegetables are all accounted for. The stew meat is there. Everything appears at first glance to be in order. So, what’s missing? Seasoning! Seasoning that brings everything in the cast iron country kettle together is missing. “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.” Matthew 5:13-16 (ESV) Man without God’s salvation is just like this stew base simmering in the kettle tasting flat. “Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!” Psalm 34:8 (ESV) Continue to Part 2 |
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