Aug 31, 2026 · 53 min · 12 segments
What is the Gospel? Euangelion = gospel, meaning a better life has come. The Gospel should take your breath away! Let's look deeply at the Good News at work in the midst of the bad news we experience…
Mike PatzHost
In 1995, the Hubble telescope had already been providing amazing images to the world.
But the director of the Space Telescope Institute decided to do something that a lot of people thought was a waste.
He chose a blank portion of the sky about the size of the tip of a pen or a grain of sand, and he pointed the Hubble telescope at that.
Why not point the Hubble where you can see things? These galaxies that we know about and we can see.
And so again, if you took at arm's length the size of a grain of sand, And they started looking through the telescope for hours and hours and hours and days.
And after 10 days of looking at what, at first glance, appeared to be nothing, they ended up seeing this.
In what looked like nothing, each galaxy actually contained millions of stars that had been there all along.
But the question is, how could that be the gospel when Jesus was preaching the gospel in Mark chapter 1, but he's not going to go to the cross until we get to the end of the book of Mark? What is the gospel? I think I want to say to us today, my concern about the gospel with us is my concern like the Hubble telescope.
In 1995, the Hubble telescope had already been providing amazing images to the world.
But the director of the Space Telescope Institute decided to do something that a lot of people thought was a waste.
He chose a blank portion of the sky about the size of the tip of a pen or a grain of sand, and he pointed the Hubble telescope at that.
Why not point the Hubble where you can see things? These galaxies that we know about and we can see.
And so again, if you took at arm's length the size of a grain of sand, And they started looking through the telescope for hours and hours and hours and days.
And after 10 days of looking at what, at first glance, appeared to be nothing, they ended up seeing this.
In what looked like nothing, each galaxy actually contained millions of stars that had been there all along.
But the question is, how could that be the gospel when Jesus was preaching the gospel in Mark chapter 1, but he's not going to go to the cross until we get to the end of the book of Mark? What is the gospel? I think I want to say to us today, my concern about the gospel with us is my concern like the Hubble telescope.
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