Sooner or later it is bound to happen. A child will pop the question, a friend will want to know, some life circumstance will demand an answer to this existential question: WHAT IS GOD LIKE? Inquiring minds want to know.

Our Muslim friends would likely answer GOD IS ONE—with that we can agree. God is one. Our Jewish friends might reply GOD IS HOLY—and with that we can, likewise, agree for God is holy.

Centuries ago the Apostle John answered the question this way “God is love!” That’s what I want us to think about today as we prepare for this baptismal renewal and Holy Communion today.

When Jesus was about 30-years-old, he traveled to the Jordan River to be baptized by his cousin John. In the midst of that experience a voice came to Jesus from heaven saying: “You are my child, whom I lo…