Sermon: Good & Pleasant (August 16, 2026)

Psalm 133Josh HillQuotes for ReflectionMichael Reeves, Delighting in the TrinitySince God is, before all things, a Father, and not primarily Creator or Ruler, all his ways are beautifully fatherly. It is not that this God "does" being Father as a day job, only to kick back in the evenings as plain old "God". It is not that he has a nice blob of fatherly icing on top. He is Father. All the way down. Thus all that he does he does as Father. That is who he is. He creates as a Father and he rules as a Father; and that means the way he rules over creation is most unlike the way any other God would rule over creation...Have you ever known someone so magnetically kind and gracious, so warm and generous of spirit that just a little time spent with them affects how you think, feel and behave? Someone whose very presence makes you better--even if only for a while, when you are with them? I know people like that, and they seem to be little pictures of how God is, according to John [Calvin]. This God, he says, is love in such a profound and potent way that you simply cannot know him without yourself becoming loving.