take me now, baby
here as i am A sermon on 1 John 4:7-21 Here we are, at the end of First John. I don’t know about you , though, but I loved working though this book. First John was a sermon first delivered to a church in the first century. And, it turns out to be just as applicable for us , in the twenty- first ! Apparently preaching on how to be church when it isn’t easy, doesn’t lose its vitality over the years… But, as much as I hate to admit it, as we come to the end of First John I can’t help but feeling like the preacher squandered the end of this sermon! This sermon just fizzles out with all its confusing and redundant repetition… And it’s too bad, because First John is a great sermon. It’s honest and faithful. It pulls no punches. It refuses to rely on anything other than the Good News. Only to, here at the end, break one of my most cherished rules: subtly . When I’m working on a sermon, if it feels like I’m being ...