You Don't Want To Share The Gospel Because ...

Jessica was 16 when she started deliberately overdosing on painkillers.

 She's one of a growing number of teenage girls who are using drugs and alcohol to poison themselves as a way of self-harming.

 Unable to talk about what was bothering her, Amanda took an entire packet of sleeping pills.

"It was a conscious thing. I think I was quite naïve at the time, because I thought I'd just take them and I'd go to sleep and that would be it. But I know it doesn't work like that. So now, when I take them, it's in a different context."

 Since then, Amanda's been hospitalized for self-poisoning so many times, she's lost track.

Criminals Are Flooding Vermont to Trade Guns for Heroin

America's Heroin Epidemic 

It's not just opioids and heroin. Fatal overdoses of other drugs are also steeply on the rise

Salt and Light

Matthew 5:13-15

You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its savor, how can it be made salty again? 

It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.

You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. 

Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a basket. 

Instead, they set it on a lampstand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.…