Three-year-old Ian Hough of Auburn, Washington, loves the story in the Bible of the time God spoke to the boy Samuel.

One night after his mother read Ian this story she asked him if God had ever spoken to him. To her surprise, he answered, “Yes.”

“What did God say to you?” his mother asked.

Ian thought and then said in his deepest voice, “Ian! Go to bed!” (1)

Does God speak to people? What do you think?

David Holwick tells a story that appeared in the Los Angeles Times. It was about a man named Bob Haifley. It seems that Haifley spent 2,500 work hours over five years gluing together 65,000 toothpicks to build a life-sized likeness of Jesus. It hangs from a wire in his garage against a black backdrop, illuminated by a spotlight.

What made Haifley, a humble water-department supervisor …