Visitors to Michigan never fail to be amused when they discover that our state contains both a Hell and a Paradise, Michigan.  Paradise is in the Upper Peninsula, and Hell is not too far from Ann Arbor.  I have no idea what that means.  The first week I arrived in Ann Arbor, I recall reading a startling headline in the Ann Arbor News.  I kid you not, this is what it said: “Dam water recedes; Hell out of danger.” In this sermon I would suggest that, Biblically speaking, Hell is never out of danger as long as Jesus Christ is abroad and at work in the universe.  But I am getting ahead of myself.  It used to be that when Methodists heard the Apostles’ Creed recited in other churches, they got an inferiority complex.  They became aware that our version had something missing.  Other churches had…