Knowing What's Coming and Why the Best is Yet to Be
I teach a middle school Christian Apologetics class. It's been nothing but fun so far. I began the class by pointing out that there is very little in life that we can know with absolute certainty. However, I stressed the importance in noticing that we can decipher what is true based on reasons and evidence. That what we want to look for, given all the factors, is what best explains reality. I then told them a story to exemplify two of the most compelling reasons to embrace the Historic Christian Faith as true. My house is right beside a small airport. My uncle, a retired, aeronautical engineer owns a plane and will often land and take off from that very same airport. When my girls were young and a plane would fly overhead we would always stop to look up. We began saying: "Maybe it's Uncle Ken!" My dad, his brother, told us that in fact there was something distinct about my uncle's plane. Unlike most small airplanes that have what's called a T-tail, Uncl...