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Have you ever sprinkled broccoli bits on broccoli? Probably not. The reason is fairly obvious: there's no point in doing so. There would only be a point if the two items were different and one enhances the other. When Jesus calls us the salt of the earth and the light of the world (Matthew 5:13-16), he is saying that we are different in a way that's intended to enhance and improve and influence the world in which we live.

Noelle Orr shared a touching tribute to her dad on Father's Day, Sunday, June 16th 2013 | "...the greatest lesson dad has lived each and every day is love. And because he has loved me, I understand the love of God. I am the recipient of his legacy of love, a gift of limitless worth from a man who has no equal.

Blessed are you when you are...persecuted. Are you like me? Left to my natural way of thinking, avoiding persecution is a blessing. Jesus enables us to think and live differently. If we suffer any form of persecution for righteousness' sake, and on account of the name of Jesus, we are blessed indeed! Let the words of Martyn Lloyd-Jones envision us this week;

Did you ever see the movie, “The Poseidon Adventure”? It’s an oldie but a goodie where a cruise ship capsizes while at sea and a handful of passengers try to escape before the ship totally sinks.

Today we are probably all going to live out our lives according to some system of blessing. Maybe it's God's system, maybe it's the world's, or likely it's our own personal blend. At the outset of Jesus' teaching on his kingdom he established that real blessing is found as we come to him in a counter-cultural and counter-intuitive way. We must be empty in order that we may be filled. This is the main theme of Matthew 5:1-6. We are blessed as we come to Jesus emptied of our own self-importance, self-righteousness, and self-confidence and in turn receive his abudance, his righteousness and submit to his will.