With some things, once you get started, it’s hard to stop. Things like eating salted peanuts and reading a good murder mystery and doing a challenging crossword puzzle. Or, in my own case, preaching sermons in a series entitled “God is like…”

In that first sermon of the series I said:

My purpose is simply to help all of us appreciate and understand more about God and to discover appropriate responses to this Holy One. I hope our exploration will provide both comfort and challenge. And I expect some surprises along the way, because what I keep discovering is that the universe we live in and the God who creates it are more complex and more wonderful than we can imagine.

Looking back on that statement of purpose in preparation for this sermon, I discovered that, whatever benefit our exploration …