I wonder if you have ever watched The Simpsons – those yellow animated characters on TV. In one episode Homer Simpson says, “Dear Lord, the gods have been good to me. As an offering, I present these milk and cookies. If you wish me to eat them instead, please give me no sign whatsoever. [Then there’s a brief pause.] Thy biding will be done,” says Homer and the he promptly scoffs the lot. – Homer thinks God is absent, silent, impotent maybe… but, friends, that is not the experience of millions and millions of Christians around the world.

Source: Rico Tice, One Life What’s It All About, 2011, Malden, Surrey: The Good Book Company, p120