{"id":35911,"date":"2025-07-07T15:59:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T19:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=35911"},"modified":"2025-10-09T11:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:57:30","slug":"pastors-ponderings-what-is-truth-august-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=35911","title":{"rendered":"Pastor’s Ponderings: What is Truth? (August 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pastor Mike submitted the following thoughts for the August 2025 edition of the PUMC newsletter, Steeple Notes…<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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What is Truth?<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

In John chapter 18, Jesus is on “trial” before the Roman governor Pontius Pilate), Pilate asked Him a question:<\/p>\n\n\t\t

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\n\t\t\tWhat is Truth?!? <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

-Pilate ( John 18<\/a>:38<\/a> )<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n

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The truth, how I long for the truth. The truth is getting harder and harder to see if we are not grounded in the bible. This world has created a way that manipulates and is hard to believe anything.<\/p>\n

With Artificial Intelligence (AI) now, you don\u2019t know what is real or what is not. Facebook can be used as a way to manipulate and display a false narrative on what is really happening. Advertisement is based on the idea that we are able to present a better product for the purpose of sales. Is the product truly as good as it says?<\/p>\n

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“I Am the Way, Truth, and Life”!!!<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

It brings me great joy that there is a truth that we can hold onto in a world trying to tear us apart. The truth is that we have an answer and it is Jesus:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\t\t

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\n\t\t\tI am the way, truth and life and no one comes to the Father except through me.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

-Jesus (John 14<\/a>:6<\/a>)\u00a0<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n

We have to decide what we are going to do with Jesus in our lives and that is the truth.<\/p>\n

Jesus makes a lot of statements and they are not hard to understand, but they will take some faith to believe. Let us seek truth in a world that just seems overwhelming.<\/p>\n

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“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – <\/em>Mark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The truth is that as we truly seek Jesus we cannot go wrong.<\/p>\n

Pastor Mike Chapman<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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What is Truth? Is there anything that’s actually TRUE anymore???
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