Have you ever had trouble placing a face--you know you should remember them and their name is right on the tip of your tongue, but nothing registers. Two of Jesus' disciples had this experience on the road to Emmaus, and their experience challenges us to ask, Do I recognize Jesus? Do I know who He really is? Both the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of John seek to help us to be certain about the identity of Jesus and then they challenge us to trust Him.

President Bush has succeeded so far in keeping us safe from terrorists on our home soil, but he could not handle the attack from Katrina. For his successes he is loved. For his failures he is hated, but the universal passion for a leader who will solve all of our problems remains. The Bible is a story about God's promise to send this great Leader, a Serpent slayer. The first two books of the New Testament seek to prove that Jesus is God's promised Messiah. Today, Dave Wyrtzen picks up the pieces to the puzzle that prove that Jesus is the Leader who alone can make us safe.

What could be better on a rainy day than to pull out one of those 1500 piece puzzles and get to work!! There's just something about getting down to those last few pieces and placing them to perfectly fit in the last places. But there is something far better--collecting all the pieces of God's puzzle about the promised Serpent Slayer in the Old Testament, fitting them all together, and then putting in the last pieces. Whose picture does the OT portray? That's the most important question you will ever answer Join us for the Introduction to our continuation of our study titled, HisStory- New as we begin to put the pieces together.