Jesus said to the people who believed in him, “You are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings. And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
John 8:31-32 NLT
In the 1992 film, A Few Good Men, we hear a very poignant and strategic line delivered by Colonel Jessup, played by Jack Nicholson. “Truth, you can’t handle the truth!” Colonel Jessup, like many people, had his own version of truth. This worldly kind of truth has been playing out across our nation for the last half decade, using violent protests to protest violence, killing babies to save mothers reproductive rights, conditioning kindergarten children to reject their God given gender, and by redefining our words, hurling us further and further away from each other.
As our nation drifts further from God, and each other, we must return to what we know is truth. Our anchor of truth is found in Jesus Christ. Jesus is the perfect image of the invisible God in human flesh;…