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God didn’t drop the Bible down from heaven!
• He could have remained in heaven and told us to read it, figure it out and when we’ve got it right, then we can talk.
• He could have met us half way while still remaining above us.
• But he didn’t. We serve a missional God. That means that he came to us. The creator became the created and moved in next door to us, he lived among us, ate our food, drank our drinks, slept on a bed, went through adolescence, cried our tears, felt pain like we do, laugh… Continue

So, is it OK to steal...sometimes? Most if not all followers of Jesus would say that it is not OK to steal...ever! God himself, blessed be He, said, "You will not steal." I mean, it is one of the 10 sayings or commandments given to Moses on Mt. Sinai.
But did you know that according to Jewish Oral Torah, which is an explanation of how to live out the written Torah (law), that all commandments must be suspended in order to save a human life with the exception of 3, idolatry, incest and murder.
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"You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses is taste, how can its saltness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men!" Probably considered the most important sermon of all time is the Sermon on the Mount. After Jesus opens his sermon with the "Happy are those..." statements he goes directly into talking about salt and light. A surface reading of this passage will get you no further than thinking that Jesus wants us to "flavor" the… Continue