Despite his best efforts at teaching, feeding, and healing, today Jesus is rejected. However, he is still our Lord. This is good news for us today. A pastor was about to attend a book fair in a neighboring county and was getting ready to leave the church office. It was early after lunch on a summer afternoon. A young man in his late twenties and his little one- year-old daughter suddenly walked into the pastor’s office, and crashed down in the chair in front of the pastor’s desk. The young man was noticeably shaken. The little girl was running around the office and in and out of the doors of other rooms. The man announced that his wife wanted a divorce! They had been married for less than a year, and this pastor performed both the premarital counseling and wedding service.

The young man sai…