Gifts of God

It is so good to be back with you after a three month sabbatical. As most of you know, I’ve been on the road…in the air…down the trail…in the desert, at the ocean, journeying for two months in the back country in Africa with a month in Europe. This has been the longest stretch I’ve gone without preaching in twenty five years. This morning is a kind of homecoming for me, and we also welcome our students this day, some back from college break…some here for the first time. We’re so glad to have you with us. So let me speak this morning a word of celebration. A message of homecoming. A word of welcome.