Big Questions|Quest Blog

Many people have questioned whether any concept of God can be meaningful in a modern, scientific world. Others, however, find the idea of God to be profoundly meaningful.

I don’t know how often you get asked. Maybe never. But every couple of months somebody asks me if I believe in God. They might ask in exactly that way,

Well, here it is, early in another church year and, silly me, I have decided to lead off by talking about you…whoever or whatever you are.

I’ve been at my parents’ home in Pennsylvania for the past week and a half celebrating the holidays.

Why should we live in such a hurry and waste of life?

Many years have passed, but the memories remain vivid. The visiting evangelist would end his sermon, I knew, as soon as he offered the “invitation.” The invitation was to come forward to the front of the church and be “saved.”

“I know a farmer who says he has had the same ax his whole life—he only changed the handle three times and the head two times. Does he still have the same ax?”

By what are you saved? And how?
Saved like a bit of string,
tucked away in a drawer?

I love for a waitress to call me “Hon.” It’s comforting. She doesn’t know me, and I don’t know her, but we fit into well-worn, ancient categories: I am the “Hungry One” and she is the “One Who Brings Nourishment From the Unseen Source.”

I was thinking about the directive of Micah 6:8, “do justice.” If you read the earlier verses, you can see that people were asking Micah questions about rules and regulations.