My friend Larry Taylor was our supply preacher on Sunday morning. Larry always brings a unique perspective to a passage and wrings new truth out of familiar words. He did it again on Sunday as he preached from John 11 about the raising of Lazarus. I came away thinking about which comes first for a Christian—the seeing or the believing. We have heard since we were children that “seeing is believing” but the introduction of digital photography, CGI, and Photoshop makes that a questionable statement. We now see things on the screen that are impossible or fantastic but they are there anyway. Even in actual events such as a traffic accident, witnesses often disagree on what took place. Each has his or her own perspective. Larry suggested that perhaps believing more often precedes seeing (at least that is what I heard). We have to have a frame of reference in order to really understand the meaning of events. Many who saw Jesu...
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