Thinking about God, Jesus and The Big Questions

I've written before about why we should still enjoy today even when we know there is a difficult time coming up . Here is another way of looking at the same thing. Suppose someone nice gave you a glass of delicious lemonade every day. Then you learned that a mean person was going to take away one of those lemonades next week and leave you a glass of horrible-tasting kale juice that day instead. Suppose that you were so worried about the kale juice that you just couldn't enjoy today's lemonade, or tomorrow's either. In fact, you weren't planning on enjoying any of the lemonade until after the kale juice day had been and gone. Isn't that a little bit ridiculous? The lemonade is still being given to you by someone who loves you, so why not enjoy it on the days that it is there? On the kale juice day, sure, you don't need to be excited about the kale juice. But don't let the actions of a mean person stop you from enjoying the gift a good person has given to ...

There were scholars long ago in Biblical times. Scholars are not a new modern-day thing. Of course, scholars were rarer back then, since there were not many equivalents of universities. Let's look at some of the most well-known scholars of Biblical times: the three wise men who went in search of Jesus. It seems that these men were scholars of some sort, most likely astronomers. They had taken note of a new star that had appeared in the sky: Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him; and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. They told him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet: “‘And you, O Bethlehem, in the l...