We live in an age of gaps. There is the generation gap (best known, probably, because of the alliteration of the title, and for the fact that we have all felt ourselves a part of it at one time or another), and the marriage gap, the racial gap, the economic gap, and a host of others. In a world desperately needing unity lest it blow itself to smithereens, we live separated by chasms and gulfs. It would seem that God - if He is really a part of our world in the present age - speaks to our separations. Hence the pre-Lenten sermon series: God and the Gaps.

We begin with the generation gap because this is one in which God himself, at a particular time in history in the person of Jesus Christ, was a part! Unfortunately, the New Testament is silent about the "under thirty" years of Jesus’ life …