Outside the temple there is no peace. You have challenges in your family. You feel arthritis settling in, or some other part of you is aging. Friends turn against you. Irrational people will give you no peace.
But here, in Jesus …
Read MoreChristianity rests entirely on certain objective persons and events. It they didn’t happen, then it’s not true.
A man named Jesus, born of a virgin, suffering under a Roman governor named Pontius Pilate, crucified, died, buried, rising again on the third day, all seen by hundreds of eye-witnesses: did that happen? That question matters. If it’s not true, then the opening of Ecclesiastes is the only truth: Meaningless, meaningless, everything is meaningless.
Today’s Epistle lesson addresses that fundamental question: “Is it true?”
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