Day Twenty–Seven // March 19 // In the Holy Places “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” – C.S. Lewis –
In seminary, I had the great fortune of being in a preaching class with an African American student from the Black Church Tradition. He was an outstanding pastor and a terrifically gifted preacher. And as our class drew to its close, as our final exam, we had to preach a sermon to our peers. Mine was… let’s just say that I was a work in progress (and I still am). My friend’s sermon, though, was a powerhouse. It was gripping. It was enthusiastic. It was one of the best sermons I’d ever heard. Still to this day, I remember it: he entitled it, “Jesus Was Late for Church.” It was a remarkable exposition of an even more remarkable truth: that every place where Jesus went
