Pre-marital counseling can be an adventure for pastors.  You never know what two people filled with passion will say.  I recall talking with a couple a few years ago about their upcoming nuptials.  I was explaining to them the wedding ceremony.  When I got to the reference of Jesus being at a wedding reception in Cana of Galilee and turning the water into wine, the soon to be groom interrupted me mid-sentence and asked, “You really don’t believe that happened, do you?  I mean, that sounds like a trumped up story, to me.”  He went on to say that he did not believe any of the miracles of Jesus actually happened.

Something similar occurred when I was on vacation a few years ago.  We were at the beach and we watched these skilled surfers riding these big waves.  Later, I struck up a conversat…