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- Pastor Name: Jonathan Cornell
- Date & Time: April 26, 2015 | 10:00am
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SERMON SERIES:
Trinity
This morning, I want to begin by sharing with you a few statistics that might make your head spin, facts about our natural world that have captivated history’s greatest minds, natural phenomena in which one’s only response is “wow.”
Did you know that if our Milky Way galaxy were shrunk to the size of the continent of North America – Canada and the United States – can you guess how much space would our individual solar system take up? It would fit inside a coffee cup.
Now consider this: 36 years ago, in 1977, NASA sent up Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 on a probe and they have been traveling 36 years and still haven’t reached the edge of our coffee cup. They still aren’t there. Today, when engineers beam a command to Voyager at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second), it takes more than 13 hours to arrive at Voyager. And still, Voyager hasn’t reached the edge of our solar system. Yet this vast neighborhood of our sun, in our coffee cup, fits with several hundred billion other stars in our Milky Way galaxy, and our Milky Way is one of perhaps 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. Today, we’re sitting on a tiny fleck of dust rotating around a minor star at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy.
Perhaps some of you saw this viral video a while back that gives us a sense of how tiny earth is compared to some of the other stars in the skies.
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