On the 14th of February 1990, the Voyager space probe took its last photo, an image of Earth from a distance of over 6 billion kilometres. In it, Earth can be seen taking up less than a pixel in the vastness of space. The author, Carl Sagan, later published his interpretation of the image in his 1994 book Pale Blue Dot, claiming that everything humanity had ever known was tiny, insignificant, and temporary compared to the age and vastness of the universe. Some framed this as a theological challenge, claiming that for centuries the church had taught that God was close, that the Earth was at the centre of a small and very young universe, and that we are significant. This sounds plausible, but in the Bible, the cosmos is described as vast, and our place in it is unimaginably small. Our lives are considered so temporary that we are compared to passing mists. In other words, for careful readers of the Bible, the image of the Pale Blue Dot was not a surprise but only a reminder of the power and outrageous grace of God. This week at our 10 a.m. Sunday service, Dr. Christina Smith, astrophysicist, will be helping us to explore the universe and how big we think God is.