HUNGRY FOR LOVE (5 OF 5)
Scripture: John 4:4-22, John 4:24-26
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Hungry for Love (5 of 5)
Series: Soul Hunger
Dave Gustavsen
John 4:4-26
Good morning. Norma Jean and I just returned from a trip to France, celebrating our anniversary and my 50th birthday. And once again I was reminded that people are people. We spent time with an Italian hotel manager, a Turkish hotel manager, a British tour guide, a Mexican tour guide, two Cambodian taxi drivers, and a whole bunch of French people. They spoke different languages; they had different cultural habits (like smoking right next to us in restaurants); all kinds of differences. But as we got to know them, we realized quickly they were a lot like us. They valued things like freedom, and security, and peace, and love-the same stuff we want.
So in the Soul Hunger series, which concludes today, we've been asking the question, ''Why is that?'' Why do all people-despite outward differences-have the same basic desires? Is it because we share a common evolutionary history? Or is there something more going on? And the starting point of this series is that, whatever you believe about human origins, science is insufficient to answer the question that we're asking.
On our flight to Europe last week, I had the luxury of reading for about 5 hours straight, with no interruptions. I love that. So I read a book called When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi. He was a neurosurgeon who was used to treating patients, and then he became a patient. He was diagnosed with cancer in his mid-30s, and in the book he grapples with the realization that he's going to die. It's a beautiful book-you should read it.
But the reason I bring it up is this: here was a guy who was a Yale-trained neurosurgeon. Absolutely brilliant. And through his time in college and med school, he became a hardened secular atheist. He felt that science could answer all of life's questions. But then he got sick, and he started thinking on a different level. Listen to what he said: ''Science may provide the most useful ...
Series: Soul Hunger
Dave Gustavsen
John 4:4-26
Good morning. Norma Jean and I just returned from a trip to France, celebrating our anniversary and my 50th birthday. And once again I was reminded that people are people. We spent time with an Italian hotel manager, a Turkish hotel manager, a British tour guide, a Mexican tour guide, two Cambodian taxi drivers, and a whole bunch of French people. They spoke different languages; they had different cultural habits (like smoking right next to us in restaurants); all kinds of differences. But as we got to know them, we realized quickly they were a lot like us. They valued things like freedom, and security, and peace, and love-the same stuff we want.
So in the Soul Hunger series, which concludes today, we've been asking the question, ''Why is that?'' Why do all people-despite outward differences-have the same basic desires? Is it because we share a common evolutionary history? Or is there something more going on? And the starting point of this series is that, whatever you believe about human origins, science is insufficient to answer the question that we're asking.
On our flight to Europe last week, I had the luxury of reading for about 5 hours straight, with no interruptions. I love that. So I read a book called When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi. He was a neurosurgeon who was used to treating patients, and then he became a patient. He was diagnosed with cancer in his mid-30s, and in the book he grapples with the realization that he's going to die. It's a beautiful book-you should read it.
But the reason I bring it up is this: here was a guy who was a Yale-trained neurosurgeon. Absolutely brilliant. And through his time in college and med school, he became a hardened secular atheist. He felt that science could answer all of life's questions. But then he got sick, and he started thinking on a different level. Listen to what he said: ''Science may provide the most useful ...
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