Lindy Nuggets for Lectionary

EPIPHANY 5A February 5, 2017

SCRIPTURES

Isa 58:1-9a

Ps. 112: 1-9

1 Cor 2:1-12

Matt 5: 13-20

-‘You are the salt of the earth; the light of the world.

-We are again faced with the insidious temptation to hear Jesus' words as requirement rather than blessing, as command rather than commissioning. David Lose
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QUOTES

-We are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright is wholly derived from the sun. ...surely we must have alittle native luminosity?C.S.Lewis

-Light condemns and saves.
- We must remain active preservative agents.

-The tiniest hair casts a shadow. Goethe

-In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to see the differences between things; and it is Christ who gives us light. C. T. Whitemell

-God hath yet more light to brake forth from His Word. Pastor Robinson to Pilgrims

-Light condemns and saves

-What we see is 1/3 outside our eyes and 2/3 inside our eyes.

-“You don't carry light...you carry the source. *” -The darkness has blinded his eyes

-Light reveals uncleanness but does not adulterate. i.e. privy

-Light is the first thing created.

-The inward light. Quakerism

-Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

-Is there anything more loyal than the sun? ~Mary Oliver -People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves. John Piper

-We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine. Dwight L. Moody -Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King Jr

-The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted. John Lyly

ILLUTRATIONS

-The Light of the world by Holman-Hunt

-The cave heard a voice calling to it:"Come up into the light... come and see the sunshine. The cave replied: "I don't know that you mean; there isn't anything here but darkness." Finally the cave ventured forth and was surprised to see light all around. Looking up to the sun, the cave said: "Come with me and see my darkness." The sun agreed and entered the cave...."Now show me your darkness." But there was no darkness.

-An eighteen-year-old Albanian girl decided to become a nun. Her mother was supportive, but her brother, a lieutenant in the Albanian army said, "How could you? A little girl like you become a nun! Do you realize that you are burying yourself?"

The girl answered, "You think you are so important as an officer serving a king of two million subjects. Well, I am serving the king of the whole world."

That girl became and nun and ended up in an old building in Calcutta, where she had no desks or chairs or tables. She used the dirt floor as a chalkboard. By the end of her life she had established 80 schools, 300 modern medical dispensaries, 70 leprosy clinics, 30 homes for the dying, 30 homes for abandoned children and was supervising the work of 40,000 volunteers worldwide.

We know her as Mother Teresa

HUMOR

-The tunnel at the end of the light.

-“Some people will change when they see the light. Others change only when they feel the heat

-Why ‘after dark’? Is really, after light.

-In the beginning there was nothing. God said, "Let there be light!" And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. Ellen DeGeneres

CHILDREN

-That Little light of mine (I’m goin to let it shine)

PRAYER PHRASES