The Heavens Declare

The universe is bigger and grander than we can imagine!

1 May 2026

Stephen McAlpine

The Heavens Declare

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How about those pictures from the James Webb telescope?

Amazing!

The universe is bigger and grander than we can imagine!

Turns out

We’re not the centre of the universe! We’re only a tiny bit of it!

If there is a God

why would he even care about this mud speck called earth!

The Bible says that the heavens declare God’s glory

And that telescope make a good case for it.

Yet the Bible also says that the God of the universe

Cares enough about us to become one of us.

Cares enough to join us on our mud speck.

That’s the paradox of Christianity

A big God with grand plans

But grand plans that include us.

It’s easy to think the earth would be better off without humans.

But God won’t make do with the whole universe without them.

About Stephen McAlpine

Steve has a background in journalism and three decades experience pastoring and planting churches

He has spent most of his life in Western Australia, but is originally from Northern Ireland, emigrating, as so many did, back in the 1970s.

A love of reading and writing has been with him since he can remember. Even as he has pastored churches and shared the gospel over the years, he saw the need for Christian communities to better engage the changing world they lived in. Starting with a blog, then moving to books and speaking engagements, Stephen’s life looks a little different to what it was when leading a church. But his aim is the same: to see God’s people flourish in a constantly changing culture. And to ensure that, as he lives within Christian community, his own faith flourishes too.