Why did you come here today? Have you given it any thought? Why did you come here today, to church? There are all the usual reasons, I suppose: It’s our habit! It’s what we do on Sunday mornings! That’s probably as good a reason as any! Thank God for good habits!

But maybe it’s more than that for you. Maybe you’ve had a rough week, a strange week, a tiring week. Maybe things aren’t working out in your marriage. Maybe the first days of University are more than you’d bargained for. Maybe life on the job isn’t what you’d thought it’d be. And you came here this morning with a hope, a wish, a desire of some kind! Maybe you don’t even know for sure what it is that you’re looking for.

A fellow named Alex Black tried to sort out all of that one time. He wrote a novel (The Great Desire, Harper & …