Text: "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" John 1:46

The wedding march had just begun. I stepped to the center of the chancel area. In the ministry there is no moment as deeply moving as that when a wedding march begins. The groom took his place, followed by the best man, at the front of the sanctuary. Down the aisle came the ushers and the bridesmaids. Then into the Narthex came the bride - beautiful, radiant, on the arm of her father. As she moved slowly down the aisle, every eye was fixed upon her. But in that moment my thoughts were far away.

I remembered a day, seventeen months before, when a young woman was weeping in my study. She had blurted out that there is no meaning in life - that it isn’t worth going on. Because of numerous experiences of the kind I suspected that it h…