Image of God

  1 Samuel 1:4-20; 1 Samuel 2:1-10; Hebrews 10:11-14 (15-18) 19-25; Mark 13:1-8

What do you think of when you think about God? What is your image of God? Is God one who dishes out rewards and punishment depending on our actions? Is God a God of wrath, or love - or both, or somewhere in between? Do you believe in God?

What do you think about God when there is injustice, futility, casualties, violence, disasters, and heart break?

What do you think about judgment, the Judgment Day, the apocalypse?

Where is God in all of this? What does Jesus have to say about this?

Consider the couple struggling with infertility, and compare your thoughts with those of The Rev. Danae M. Ashley in "JourneyThroughGrief. "