The universal human longings for the things like truth, justice, love, & beauty are all genuine signposts to the fact that we humans are made by a good and wise Creator. But we so often find that each one of them is “broken.” They fail to deliver on what they appear to promise. Or perhaps we should say, we fail to deliver. However, there is one thing, one who, that never fails, who has shown that to which all the good in this world (broken though it may be) points. This perfect signpost, this Jesus, gives hope and life and a future

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We’ll often mock weak leaders while resenting powerful ones. We want justice, but there must be power if justice is to flourish. Yet, people in power regularly bend justice to suit their own ends, accomplishing neither justice nor equality. Power has been abused, abdicated, hoarded, denied, and deified. And yet we still know that it is essential, even with all the dangers that it brings when applied improperly. How do we move forward?

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One of the most basic, fundamental drives that we see in the human condition is to be free. Wars are fought over it, protests are held to demand it, books & films are written to describe it’s loss and (hopefully) triumphant return. Yet the very fact that we yearn for freedom points out that there is something that stands in opposition to us being free.

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One of the most basic, fundamental drives that we see in the human condition is to be free. Wars are fought over it, protests are held to demand it, books & films are written to describe it’s loss and (hopefully) triumphant return. Yet the very fact that we yearn for freedom points out that there is something that stands in opposition to us being free.

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There is something about a gorgeous sunset, about peering across a vast chasm, about subtleties of light & color in a magnificent painting, about the play of meaning & sound in a skillfully woven poem, about gazing at your spouse yet again after decades like it’s the first time you’ve seen them … there’s just something in this world that resonates deep within us when we encounter real beauty. And that encounter points us to even greater truth and more stunning beauty.

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NT Wright has written, “There are a great many people in today’s world who do not think of themselves as either religious or indeed Christian but who do think of themselves as somehow spiritual. Yet Christianity speaks uniquely to … our longing for spiritual connection by interjecting glimpses of heaven on earth.” What does it mean that we all seem to long for something more than our eyes can see or our fingers can touch?

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Almost every story ever written, almost ever song ever sung, almost every movie ever created all have one central component to their tales - love. The loss of it, the quest for it, the unrequitedness of it, the deep enjoyment of it, something about love. This is because love is central to the human condition. And that is something that points us to an even deeper reality of what it means to be truly human.

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We all long for things to be, well, right. That’s why we instinctively recoil when we see injustice being done. Or at least, what we think to be injustice. And the Bible has a lot to say about this idea, and some of it challenges what we might think.

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