Text: Isaiah 55:1-12

Who is this? It’s obvious, of course; it’s the baby born to a Jewish woman in Bethlehem over 2000 years ago – we’ll never know the exact year or day – a boy named Jesus, and he grew up to become – incredibly – the most influential person in the history of the world. And for me personally, that Jesus Christ is my blessed Lord, the Redeemer of the world. I have known this, have tried to live this – and yet – yet, as my decades roll on in our age of overwhelming science and technology, my life-long convictions  -? – was – ?  – does Jesus matter, really? Now?