- Posted November 7, 2025
We Christians have an anxiety about us—about who we are, about our failures, about our differences, about our spats—and…
Over the years, a common objection people raised to religion is that, well, it’s pie in the sky. Religion, they think, has some vague promises of benefits in the next life, but it doesn’t do much for a person in this life. That’s really a pity that those of us who call ourselves Christians have allowed people to think of us that way; for if a person comes to understand the words of Jesus, they’ll come away with a totally different perspective.Take for example one day when Jesus came to a synagogue in Nazareth where he had been brought