President Trump will release JFK files

As a Dallas resident, I have visited the Sixth Floor Museum many times. It is located where, according to the Warren Commission, Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President Kennedy on November 22, 1963.

Conspiracy theories continue to generate debate more than fifty years after the tragedy. Were the Soviets involved? The Mafia? The Cubans? The CIA?

Now the controversy has erupted anew with President Trump’s weekend announcement that he does not plan to block the scheduled release of thousands of documents related to the assassination. These documents include 3,000 that have never been seen by the public and more than 30,000 that have been previously released but were redacted. Barring new information, the documents will be released this Thursday.

If you could prove conclusively that someone other than Oswald killed President Kennedy, your discovery would make global headlines. But how would it change our lives today?

On a more practical level, imagine that you could develop a vaccine that would prevent every form of cancer or heart disease. You would instantly become one of the most famous and celebrated figures in history.

But every human being will eventually die of something unless Jesus returns first (Hebrews 9:27).

The most important news ever announced is a message you know well. You have heard it all your Christian life. If Jesus is your Lord, this message led you to him and to eternal life. It is so simple that a child can understand it and so powerful that it transforms every person who believes and lives by its truth.

Paul was adamant: “I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek” (Romans 1:16).

Here’s the catch: to reach lost people, we must love lost people.

Over the weekend, I was reading in the Book of Acts and came to an event I’d like to explore with you this morning. Acts 19 finds Paul and his ministry team in Ephesus, where he…