This is an evening for looking deep within ourselves. It is an evening for pondering who we are in light of the cross of Jesus Christ. Tonight I ask you to ponder this question: is your faith more than skin deep?

You know, sometimes you come across a new fact or idea that is so amazing, it just makes you sit up and take notice. I recently came across such a fact. Did you know that the average human being grows approximately 1,000 new layers of outer skin throughout his or her lifetime? That's right, we shed and regrow skin cells so often that it is the equivalent of growing 1,000 new skins over the course of a lifetime. I have two questions. What would we do if we didn't shed the old skin. We would be humongous-and not very nice-looking, as well. The second question is, why don't we feel …