Psalm 145:10-13 ; John 13:36-38 ; John 18:12-27 “When I was a young man and went to seminary school,” [that’s a Doors reference for the hippies and Xers out there] I found that all the cool kids had bumper stickers. They proudly brandished statements like “Eve Was Framed,” or “Question Authority,” or the truly rebellious, “In case of rapture, can I have your car?” Naturally, I set about to find a fitting statement – something that was not merely sarcastic, but truly reflective of my faith. And lo and behold, in a shop in Little Five Points in Atlanta, it came to me – “Denial is not a river in Egypt.” I placed it tenderly on the rear window of the cab of my small, beat-up, yellow pickup truck – and everyone who knew me agreed that it seemed fitting. I won’t go into why, but the answer did seem to vary by the perspective of the individual. In some ways, this is also true of our story today but the fundamental question this story asks us is the same regardless of our perspective. If Pete...
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