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“In the cross of Christ I glory, towering o’er the wrecks of time.”  That is a hymn lyric that many Christians know. But the notion of the cross towering over various temporal “wrecks” gained new poignancy when we saw on the news—and for those of us who went to Lower Manhattan in the months after…

Matthew 16:13a is not important, right? We can just skip to verse 13b, yes? We can just start with the question “Who do people say that I am?”  That’s the core if it all here, right? Wrong! We cannot skip the geographical marker in this incident.  If we do, we miss the key piece of…

“In the cross of Christ I glory, towering o’er the wrecks of time.”  That is a hymn lyric that many Christians know.  But the notion of the cross towering over various temporal “wrecks” gained new poignancy when we saw on the news—and for those of us who went to Lower Manhattan in the months after…

Matthew 16:13a is not important, right? We can just skip to verse 13b, yes? We can just start with the question “Who do people say that I am?”  That’s the core if it all here, right? Wrong! We cannot skip the geographical marker in this incident.  If we do, we miss the key piece of…