Theodore H. White, Pulitzer Prizewinning expert on American politics, coined a new word recently. Someone asked him about the effect of television on politicians. White answered, "Politicians remind me of a certain variety of plant - the kind that grow under porches and other places where the sun doesn't penetrate. Botanists call these plants heliotropes, meaning that as they grow, they bend in the direction of the sun. Well, politicians today are what I call ‘Videotropic.' As they grow, they follow the camera because that's where the votes are."

If I might build on that analogy, you and I are here because we are ‘Theotropic' - that is, we are drawn irresistibly in the direction of God. In God is our help and our strength. We gather here each Lord's day to acknowledge that He is our hope and the foundation of our lives.