What an Immense Privilege is Ours!

Today it is with an especially deep sense of gratitude and humility that I preach the text chosen for this sermon. Think of it - we come together in faith, health, and freedom to worship the living God. He welcomes us. He knows us by name. He invites us to know him by name. These are all wondrous and momentous gifts. Just to be able to know God and to proclaim the truth of his being here among us and his being for us is the first privilege of life.

At times we are tempted to try to explain God. But if God were so easily comprehended in our human explanation, he would not be God. At the other end of the spectrum, God is not so remote as to leave us speechless. He does come to us and will always leave his witness among us. The third chapter of John's Gosp…