Dewey Bertolini's Podcast

I cannot think of a more beautiful tribute to committed Christ-followers everywhere—including YOU—than Jesus’ words here in the Sermon on the Mount: “You are the salt of the earth.” As you are about to hear in this PODCAST, Jesus, ever the master of the metaphor, came up with a doozie with this one. “You are the salt of the earth.” I am excited about this for a couple of compelling reasons: 1. The rich and rewarding meaning of this metaphor, which we will get to in a moment. 2. “You are the salt of the earth” provides us with a wonderfully enriching teachable moment, one where I get to take you behind the scenes, as it were, and demonstrate for you in real time how we arrive at the proper interpretation of a passage—this passage in Matthew 5—and from there how to make an appropriate application of a passage—any passage—to our lives today. So you’re getting a two-for-the-price-of-one in this podcast -- What the passage means, and how we arrive at its meaning. Because truth be told, one of the reasons the Churc