Over the last few weeks we’ve been talking about how to cling to our faith and difficult times, how to remain hopeful, even when the headlines conspire to steal our hope away. It’s fitting that we close this series today by turning to what is simultaneously the darkest moment in human history, and the one from which we draw our greatest hope. today is the culmination of the Christian calendar, the climax to which the entire story builds, the day on which we announced that Christ is Lord of heaven and earth.
This king we have come to Crown is unlike any other, and his throne will be a cross — which helps to explain why most of the people around him cannot see him for who he is. In times that test us and show what we are made of, who will we be? Who will the Church be?