{"id":2443,"date":"2014-02-24T18:26:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T18:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/merebreath\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2014-02-24T18:26:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T18:26:16","slug":"salted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/merebreath\/2014\/02\/24\/salted\/","title":{"rendered":"Salted"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>This sermon hit me pretty hard today. Listening through it (we missed church the Sunday it was preached) this morning was like going through a check list of the last several months of my life. God changes us through hardship \u2014 school frustrations, terrible twos, difficult relationships, <a title=\"Answered Prayer No.\u00a04\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/merebreath\/2014\/02\/04\/answered-prayer-no-4\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">through sickness<\/a>, relocation difficulties,<a title=\"Memorial\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/merebreath\/2013\/12\/16\/memorial\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"> through death<\/a>. Bam, bam, bam, bam! Message received. I need to stop seeing all these as God punishing me and start seeing them as <a title=\"Going All In for\u00a02014\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/merebreath\/2013\/12\/31\/going-all-in-2014\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">God lovingly shaping me into who He wants me to be<\/a>. Hallelujah.<\/p>\n<p>Outline:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tobyjsumpter.com\/salt-light-and-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\">http:\/\/www.tobyjsumpter.com\/salt-light-and-law\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Audio:<a href=\"http:\/\/thecafe.canonpress.org\/trinitypodcast\/2014\/02\/10\/salt-light-and-the-law-sermon-on-the-mount-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\">http:\/\/thecafe.canonpress.org\/trinitypodcast\/2014\/02\/10\/salt-light-and-the-law-sermon-on-the-mount-ii\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sermon hit me pretty hard today. Listening through it (we missed church the Sunday it was preached) this morning was like going through a check list of the last several months of my life. God changes us through hardship \u2014 school frustrations, terrible twos, difficult relationships, through sickness, relocation difficulties, through death. 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