Humanity at its best and worst (John 18:1-19:42)
On Good Friday, Jesus turns the power of the state on its head.
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Apart from six years, I’ve lived in Kansas my entire life, smack in the middle of tornado alley. A year before I was born, a tornado of the largest classification at the time whipped through Wichita and Andover, two cities I would call home for more than 20 years. The tornado killed 17 people and destroyed a trailer park in Andover.
