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Podcast: West End UMC Podcast Audio Podcast
Episode: Holy Fireworks
Description: Today is the fifth Sunday for our summer sermon series, “Rise and Shine,” examining a number of passages that offer light as an image of God’s presence and grace. Today’s reading is the familiar “You are the light of the world” section from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5. The question for us is how we shine the loving light of Christ in the world. In context, Jesus is speaking to common folks, people who aren’t leaders, and it is astonishing that those are the people Jesus is challenging to be the light of the world. No person is u...