I want to begin the podcast today with a little quiz.

I think you'll get the answer easily enough.

Here it is.

Next to the Lord Jesus and the Virgin Mary, whose name is most frequently on the lips of

Christians.

It's not Augustine, or Thomas Aquinas, or even Martin Luther, is it?

Not every day in some churches and every Sunday in millions of churches, billions of

Christians say the words, I believe in Jesus Christ, His Son, who was conceived of the

Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate.

The words of the Apostles Creed, every Sunday Pontius Pilate is remembered.

Media reporters love few things better than a trapped politician.

Sometimes they try to trap them by the questions they ask.

Sometimes they run stories about an entrapped politician until something or someone else

is worth headlining attention.

The word seems to love trapped politicians, but loves to despise them too.

Pontius Pilate was the most famous trapped politician in human history.

He was governor of the Roman province of Judea for about ten years.

That was by no means an easy posting.

Jewish monotheism, like modern-day genuine Christianity, can be a thorn in the flesh to

a pluralistic society.

People who believe that God has revealed himself in space and time in very definite and

particular ways and sovereignly instructs us in how to live for His glory and for our blessing

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