St. Patrick had come to appreciate the Irish people, all the while still serving as slave. He eventually escaped back home to England. But not to stay. Patrick felt that he needed to go back and walk among the very people who had enslaved him. He wanted them to know Jesus like he did. To be changed, freed, and experience …

“So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view” (2 Corinthians 5:16). There’s a video of a man having a bad day. People around him just make life difficult for him, beginning with his own family during the morning routine, then the neighbor kid in his way as he’s backing out of the driveway, then idiot drivers …

Now that your green wardrobe choices are buried again in the back of the closet, I’m going to reflect on St. Patrick. Why was he so important? What was his real impact on the history of the world? Somewhere in northeastern England, which was near the edge of the Roman Empire, lived a young man named Patricius (later known as …