It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,
It was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity.

What Charles Dickens said of Europe in the eighteenth century could be said of religion in the twenty-first century. In short, the world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more and less religious at the same time and that’s what I would like to talk about today.

When the Apostle Paul walked among the idols on Mars Hill in Athens, he found an altar dedicated “TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.” And when he gets a chance to address the crowd, he says, “Now, what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you” (Acts 17:23).

I. God Is

God exists. God is more than a figment of our imagination; God is the esse…