that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality truth that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality

postmodernist truth There is no truth. There is convenience and illusion, but nothing that we can declare as complete truth.

video Pilate what is truth Oprah your truth Giuliani truth isn’t truth Nicholson you can’t handle the truth Johnny Cash the lonely voice of youth cries: what is truth

Surveys tell us that many Christian teens struggle with faith when they go off to college or university

what can we be sure of?

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John 18:37 “You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”

John 18:38 What is truth?” retorted Pilate.

what is truth?

you cannot believe everything you read on the Internet True news Information American news Fake news Disinformation Russian news [CLICK] each left line, then title

If that gets you depressed

between early 1500s & the mid 1600s there was in this 130 year period of almost non-stop Christian on Christian violence

Peace of Westphalia

tolerance

secularism

tolerance

pluralism

truth

but when you’re in a pluralistic society

how do I know my beliefs are true?

absolute truth personal truth private truth your truth We can’t talk about absolute truth that applies to everyone

Truth truth Not truth with a capital T

truth is relativized

the right to your own truth

You can’t hurt anybody You have a right to your own truth Blame terrorism [CLICK] each line

religious beliefs are dangerous

called to love all people

Jesus Christ is Lord

Philippians 2:10-11 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

there is no absolute truth

truth is always narrow

2 + 2 =

truth is always narrow

no one really believes in relativism

Jesus made absolute truth claims

John 14:6 I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. I’m one of the ways, one of the truths, one of the life’s. [CLICK] for bottom statement

Burger King religion

Acts 4:11-12 Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’ Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved. [CLICK] 2nd part

One Lord One God One Savior

1 Peter 3:15-16 Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.

1 Corinthians 16:14 Do everything in love

1 Corinthians 13:1-2 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

winning the debate becomes more important to you than showing the other person that you love them

Zip it

We believe Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, we therefore look to no other.

We believe Jesus is Lord of all, so we pledge our allegiance to no other

We believe Jesus will reign forever, so we pledge no hope in any other

As we now go out into the world we do so with a commitment to live in the way, the truth and the life of Jesus Christ