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Evening Lauren.{{{HUGS}}}
Jesus’ most memorable story, The Prodigal Son, ends with a banquet scene, featuring as its hero a good-for-nothing who has soiled the family reputation. Those judged undesirable by everyone else—like the prodigal son—are infinitely desirable to God. When one of them turns to God, a party breaks out (Luke 15:22-24).
In the Old Testament, levitical laws guarded against contagion. Among the things that would contaminate a person were contact with certain animals, carcasses, or the sick. But Jesus reversed the process. Rather than becoming contaminated by what was unclean, He made the unclean whole.
I sense in Jesus a fulfillment, not an abolition, of the Old Testament laws. God had hallowed creation by separating the sacred from the profane, the clean from the unclean. Jesus did not cancel out this hallowing principle; rather He changed its source.
Because of God’s great grace, we can be agents of His holiness, for He now dwells within us. We can seek, as Jesus did, for ways to be a source of holiness. The sick and the maimed are not hot spots of contamination but potential reservoirs of God’s mercy. We are called to extend that mercy, to be conveyers of grace, not avoiders of contagion. Like Jesus, we can help make the “unclean” clean.
According to Philippians 2:14, how should we “do all things”? What is the result for us, and what does that mean for our world? (v.15).
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wesome thread.
Love the road trip.
Arlington, VA (March 4, 2008)-The Coast Guard accepted delivery of the first upgraded HC-130J long-range surveillance maritime patrol aircraft Friday. The aircraft's new mission equipment and sensor packages are designed to deliver enhanced search, detection and tracking capabilities to perform maritime search and rescue, maritime law enforcement and homeland security missions. U.S. Coast Guard photo.
(March 4, 2008) SAN FRANCISCO - A crewmember of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Aspen, a buoy tender stationed at Sector San Francisco, prepares the ship to get underway on Tuesday here. Their upcoming mission is to travel north up the California coast into Humboldt Bay, Calif. (Coast Guard photo by Seaman Robert Brazzell)
PASCAGOULA, Miss. – Master Chief Petty Officer William Bodley, center, of Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf has his new Master Chief collar devices pinned on by his wife, Zina, left, and Chief Warrant Officer John Williams, right, March 3, 2008. Bodley has served the U.S. Coast Guard for more than 25 years. U.S. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael Anderson.
Some good video/music for troops and families...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ervaMPt4Ha0&feature=related
Very cool thread, Lauren! Thanks for all your hard work and
research to give us all this information!
PS...love the lighthouse. :D
A salute to a vet.
Present for Doody!
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Thank You LM!
In but late.
In Lauren,Good evening.
Happy Birthday!
