January 20, 2026 - Good Morning! It’s Tuesday, January 20.
I went to college at Houston Baptist University, in the town where I grew up. I worked my way through college as a minister at a church there. After graduating I left my hometown to move to Fort Worth to attend Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, a school designed to teach young ministers how to minister. Looking back, I learned a lot more “on the job” than I ever did in the classroom. But there was one seminary course that I have made use of time and time again throughout my career. It was called “Comparative Religions.”
It was a challenging course, filled with all the details and facts about all the denominations and faiths, all the doctrines and beliefs, of all the religions all around the world. I haven’t traveled all around the world, but as I’ve ministered in big and small towns, I’ve seen the world come to America, and I’ve met Buddhists and Hindus and Sikhs and Muslims. I’ve also had the opportunity to talk with people who follow faiths that began here in the United States, like Mormons and Christian Scientists and Jehovah’s Witnesses and Scientologists. It has been a fascinating experience.
I’ve gone back to the notes and text books from that seminary class many times, reviewing all the complicated details about all those religions. But I’ve also recalled the simple advice my professor gave us in his very first class. He instructed us to always begin our study of any faith with one simple question. And the question was this - Who do they say that Jesus is? That, when you think about it, is a question that each of us must answer. Jesus asked His disciples that very question, and the Apostle Peter, in one of his better moments, rose to his feet and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God!”
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
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