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The Wizard of Oz says, “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”. The gospel says to come, look closely.

Picture it: a man who had staked his entire life on the resurrection of Jesus, walking past hundreds of monuments to the dead, carrying a message that death had been defeated.

When God asks, “Can these bones live?” the question hangs in the air. Ezekiel wisely answers, “O Lord God, thou knowest.”

…Farmers cursed when black sludge contaminated their water. Drake saw what others missed:

…the men had been dragging heavy boats filled with silver flatware, books, and other possessions across the ice while they starved. They carried what they thought they needed while abandoning what would have saved them.

God invites us to look, and then shows us something that exceeds our wildest expectations.

John Newton stood on the deck of a slave ship, watching human cargo suffer below. He knew the horror firsthand—the chains, the disease, the death. Even after a violent storm at sea brought him to faith in 1748, he continued in the slave trade for six more years.

A few years ago, I stood near the summit of Pike’s Peak with my family when the air suddenly filled with a deafening roar. The crowd around us froze, heads turning in confusion and concern.

Where does God reveal himself to you? In Scripture, in creation, in the face of someone who needs what you have to offer? And where does he invite your response?

God brings a lawsuit against his people. The charge: counterfeiting. We mint false images of Jesus and call it worship.