... us support and help. Someone wrote, "A good friend or neighbor is one who watches your vacation slides all evening and never mentions that he has been there too." (2) Another wrote, "Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life." (3) Jesus had a lot of disciples but Scripture only really records three friends. They were Mary, Martha and Lazarus who lived in Bethany. Their home was a home away form home for Jesus. It was a safe haven of rest. Today's passage tells us about in incident in the life of ...
... she became a follower of Jesus Christ. (5) Don’t you imagine there was rejoicing in heaven when these women jumped into action to help Martha? Jesus said to his followers that they were the salt of the earth. It was a high compliment. We are to bring flavor to the ... of his captains with aiding the enemy for letting the rebels acquire salt. “Without salt they cannot make bacon and salt beef,” he said about the Confederate troops. “Salt is eminently contraband,” Sherman insisted, “because [of] its ...
... I’ll Think You’re Coming In.” On the front window were a few multicolored blinking lights. The place smelled like bacon grease and stale cigarette smoke. A one-armed man stood behind the counter. The family squeezed into a booth. A thin waitress ... trees, with the sound of bells, and with gifts. “But especially with gifts. You give me a book, I give you a tie. Aunt Martha has always wanted an orange squeezer and Uncle Henry can do with a new pipe. For we forget nobody, adult or child. All the stockings ...
