#Leaven

[momentsbeforemass]

Influencer

“Beware the leaven of the Pharisees.”

It’s an odd line in today’s Gospel. But Jesus is pointing out something that’s true for all of us.

A little leaven, a little yeast will influence the other ingredients for bread, changing what was just flour and water into something very different.

In just the same way you and I are influenced and changed by the people that we are around, that we listen to, that we follow online.

The internet label of “influencer” may sound made up, but points to this truth.

No matter how we run into them, whether it’s online or in person, some of the people that we let ourselves be influenced by are what my grandmother called “professional troublemakers.”

They complain, spread gossip and rumors, turn minor inconveniences into giant problems, and even just make things up. All for the sake of getting us upset. Drawing us in, so we’ll keep paying attention to them.

That’s who Jesus is warning us about in the Gospel.

The Pharisees (the professional troublemakers of the first century) may not be with us anymore. But it feels like a million other people have stepped up to take their place.

Because of the way that you and I are impacted by other people, we have to be careful about the people that we listen to, the people that we pay attention to.

Most professional troublemakers aren’t bad people. They just have issues that they aren’t dealing with.

They’ve fallen into the comparison trap. And jealousy is causing them to lash out at the people they desperately wish they were.

Or they’ve been hurt by people or things that happened to them. And now they’re stuck. They haven’t been able to let go, and it’s still hurting them.

Or they’ve made mistakes. Looking backwards they can see where they messed everything up. And they can’t forgive themselves for it.

And now they’re spreading all their garbage – because they’re not dealing with it.

So why is Jesus warning us about other people’s garbage? Because Jesus knows something about us (no surprise there, He’s God).

Jesus knows that you and I have a tendency to pick up that garbage and to carry it around. And anything that we pick up and carry around will influence us.

And what Jesus is telling us to do is to be intentional about what we let influence us.

Before we pick something up and carry it around, we need to consider the source.

People who are secure in who they are don’t waste their time tearing other people down. Healthy people don’t waste their time complaining. People who are healing don’t waste their time pointing out what’s wrong with other people.

If someone is always negative, bitter, angry, jealous, complaining – that’s the sign of someone who needs help. Not someone who needs to influence us.

The thing about us? We cannot go around with empty hands. You and I are going to pick up things and carry them around.

And what we carry around will influence us. It’s just human nature.

That’s why we have to be intentional about what we pick up and carry around.

The best place to start? With the only safe bet. With the One who made you. With the One who has always loved you and who always will.

Today’s Readings

#Influence #Garbage #Intentional #Carry #Leaven #God #Jesus #Catholic #Christian #Church #Moments Before Mass

[femmemortes]

Okay so on top of me watching that godforsaken “how to survive” video I also watched a “how to survive” of the movie Cube.

(If you haven’t gathered, this is the main way I experience horror movies because I am too much of a pussy to actually watch them, it’s how I got into SAW and SAW had been the only thing since that has lured me out from the bulletproof glass of YouTube plot summaries)

And I just want to say, the girl? Leaven? The girl that’s really good at math with the glasses?

Lesbian. Faggot. Actual dyke. Look at her. The only lesbian that can do math ever. I know a gay girl when I see one.

Leaven I love you girlie, only likeable character in that entire fucking movie.

#cube 1997 #cube movie #leaven

[heroictoonz]

The first thing I’ve drawn in like a million years now but me n my friend started Birth By Sleep and these doodles came out of it yeehaw

#kingdom hearts #birth by sleep #ventus #sora #lea #axel #mickey mouse #leaven #axven #I’m assuming those are the ship names idk man #art #fan art #toonz art

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

The Pharisees Question Jesus

10 And straightway He entered into a boat with His disciples and came into the region of Dalmanutha. 11 And the Pharisees came forth and began to question with Him, seeking from Him a sign from Heaven, testing Him. 12 And He sighed deeply in His spirit and said, "Why doth this generation seek after a sign? Verily I say unto you, there shall no sign be given unto this generation." 13 And He left them and, entering into the boat again, departed to the other side.

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Herod

14 Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the boat with them more than one loaf. 15 And He charged them, saying, "Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod." 16 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, "It is because we have no bread." 17 And when Jesus knew it, He said unto them, "Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? Do ye not yet perceive, nor understand? Have ye your heart yet hardened? 18 Having eyes, see ye not? And having ears, hear ye not? And do ye not remember? 19 When I broke the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up?" They said unto Him, "Twelve." 20 "And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up?" And they said, "Seven." 21 And He said unto them, "How is it that ye do not understand?" — Mark 8:10-21 | Third Millennium Bible (TMB) Third Millennium Bible, New Authorized Version, Copyright 1998 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved. Cross References: Jeremiah 5:21; Ezekiel 12:2; Matthew 12:15; Matthew 12:38-39; Matthew 14:1; Matthew 14:3; Matthew 14:6; Matthew 14:20; Matthew 15:39; Matthew 16:1; Matthew 16:7; Mark 6:41; Mark 6:52; Mark 7:34; Mark 8:6; Mark 8:8-9; Acts 27:2

#Jesus #Pharisees #signs #warning #disciples #leaven #Herod #feeding the 5000 #feeding the 4000 #Mark 8:10-21 #Gospel of Mark #New Testament #TMB #Third Millennium Bible #Deuel Enterprises Inc.

[rastronomicals]

9:18 PM EDT April 24, 2024:

Proto-Kaw - "Leaven" From the album Before Became After (April 5, 2004)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

#Proto-Kaw #Before Became After #Leaven

[twilight-town-zombies]

I can’t watch this scene and not imagine Roxas turning back and grabbing Lea’s arm, like, “Axel, babe, we Need To Talk later.”

#akuroku #leaven #kingdom hearts #roxas #axel #ventus #twilight town zombies

[green-greed]

DA BOYS ARE SLAYING!!!! ✨🪩💖 this chapter is about breakfast and yeah. Sinister Six eating breakfast. no romance just vibes.

#spider man #marvel #fanfic #fanfiction #doctor octopus #marvel fanfiction #otto octavius #spider man fanfiction #doc ock #electro #max dillon #maxwell dillon #mysterio #quentin beck #vulture #the vulture #adrian toomes #leaven #kraven the hunter #sergei kravinoff #the sandman #sandman #flint marko #william baker #chameleon #the chameleon #dmitri smerdyakov #drabbles #day in the life #slice of life

[wordsforyourwip]

Dragon

Kindness

Leaven

Prove

#writing prompts #one word prompts #prompt list #prompt blog #writing inspiration #wfyw word sets #daily prompt #dragon #kindness #leaven #prove

[coreofthebible]

The kingdom growing until it fills all

The kingdom growing until it fills all

Believers in Messiah are part of a chain that is thousands of years old, and one that will continue until it fills the earth. Luke 13:18-21 – He said, therefore, “What is the kingdom of God like, and what can I compare it to? It’s like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches.Again he said, “What can I…

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#bible #core of the bible #daniel #daniel 2 #fulfilled prophecy #jesus #Kingdom #kingdom of god #leaven #lord #luke 13 #messiah #mustard seed #nebuchadnezzar #parables #prophecy #roman empire #yeshua

[biblenewsprophecy]

#days of unleavened bread #holy day #Unleavened Bread Holy Days #God's holy days #leaven #hypocrisy #sin #sincerity and truth #understand biblical holy days

[preacherpollard]

1 Corinthians: That There Be No Divisions Among You (VIII)

Unity Through Subtraction (5:1-13) Neal Pollard As Paul works his way through some of the challenges and issues the Corinth congregation was dealing with, he turns his attention to an awful situation. As he says, “It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father’s wife” (1). This was…

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#church discipline #command #correction #fellowship #leaven #repentance #sin #withdraw

[snookies-turtle-helmet]

Who likes math?

Negative × Negative = Positive

Negative x Positive = Negative

Positive x Positive = Positive

Positive x Negative = Negative

Positive x Positive x Negative = Negative

Picture Time!

💔 x 💔 = ❤

💔 x ❤ = 💔

❤ x ❤ = ❤

❤ x 💔 = 💔

❤ x ❤ x 💔 = 💔

Here's a joke: how much leaven does it take to make the whole loaf bitter?

#leaven #love #hate #word

[superbdonutpoetry]

Hyper Grace & Hyper Literalism = Universalism

When you moved on from denominationalism and became a Mid-Acts Dispensationalist, your eyes were opened as you were saved by believing the gospel of God (in contrast to the gospel of satan which you had previously believed), but sadly, never grew spiritually over time because all you saw was God’s reconciliation without as much as a smidgen of thought going into the fact that He is also…

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#1 Corinthians 15:1-4 #1 Timothy 2:4 #2 Corinthians 5:19 #Leaven #Universalism

[heroictoonz]

I had been thinking about Lea and Ventus why is this ship not bigger I willlll cry

#kingdom hearts #ventus #lea #axel #leaven #toonz talks

[s-o-a-p-ing]

MATTHEW S.O.A.P. ~ CHAPTER 13

Monday, 3/4/24

SCRIPTURE:

He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into fifty pounds of flour until all of it was leavened.” ~ Matthew 13:33 

OBSERVATION:

So often I've found this focused on the power of the leaven...

...but the woman had to work it - mix it - into the larger flour...

It didn't just "poof" leaven the whole fifty pounds by being dropped into it...

The same holds true for me - I have to work - mix - the kingdom of heaven into my life - my "fifty pounds of flour" - for it to reach into all parts of my life... 

...into everything I think and say and do... 

APPLICATION:

Knead it...

PRAYER:

Father - forgive my thinking that just a few minutes with You and Your Word are enough to fill my life, and thank You for Your Holy Spirit's reminder to work with what You tell me throughout the day in order to follow Your will for my life and to reach others for You in ways that bring You glory - In Jesus's example and holy Name...

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#Matthew #Matthew 13 #Leaven #Flour #Work

[rastronomicals]

6:23 AM EDT March 26, 2024:

Proto~Kaw - "Leaven" From the album Before Became After Special Edition (April 5, 2004)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

#Proto~Kaw #Before Became After Special Edition #Leaven