If you're joining us for the first time or maybe the first time in a long time,

today is actually the second part of a four-part series entitled Miracles, then and now,

miracles then now, and if you're not a particularly religious person or from a different faith tradition or you used to be a person of faith but you kind of drifted away

And you're like well, I'm this isn't a serious for me because I don't really believe in miracles if If you're skeptical about miracles, you should be.

You have good reason to be skeptical of miracles.

Because a miracle is not just,

a miracle is not just something that's unusual.

A hole in one, you know, that's unusual,

but that's not a miracle.

He actually remembers your birthday, okay?

It feels like a miracle, but it's not really a miracle.

That's just unusual.

She actually,

and I don't know how to do she actually things anymore

because you just get in trouble,

so you just fill in the blank,

she actually, because you know, okay, so you get it anyway, back, anyway.

Miracles are hard to believe in because they're not just things that are unusual,

miracles are actually impossible. So if you're

skeptical, you should be. You haven't checked your brain at the door. And I say

that they're impossible because a miracle by definition, and this is my little short

definition I made up.

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