My all time favorite story and one you have heard before, is the story about a little girl sitting in the family room one night drawing a picture. Noticing the intensity of his daughter's activity, her Dad asked, “What are you doing?" “I'm drawing a picture of God," replied the girl. “How can you do that?" inquired the Dad. “Nobody knows what God looks like?" Then with a smile on her face the girl said, “They will know when I finish my picture!" In a pluralistic society driven by uncertainty and relativity there are times when I long for the confidence of that little girl.

Today I want to begin a series of sermons on “The Quest for Christian Values." Over the last 40 years America has been involved in a cultural conflict. It started in the 1960's with the rise of secularism, fueled by the…