If you could ask Jesus a question, any question, and be prom­ised a plain answer, what would you ask? There are a lot of big ones that have never been answered. Wouldn't it be great if you could just go up to Jesus and ask him one of life's big, profound eternal mysteries? "Why is there evil?" "What happens when we die?" "Why are we here?"

Jesus was asked a lot of questions during the time he was walk­ing around the near east some 2,000 years ago. Some of them were pretty good questions: "What must I do to be saved?" or "Whose fault is it that this man was born blind?" Others were not nearly so profound. "Can my two sons get the goods seats in heaven?" "Can you make my brother split the family inheritance evenly?" Selfish­ness got in the way there. Selfishness and ambition. But however mi…