Well, good morning, church. It's so good to be able to be here today to worship together. 

I want to do what I tend to do on this Sunday every year, and that's to see how good prognosticators we are here at First United Methodist Church...

(2:29) Good morning, church. Before I get into the sermon, I just want to say how proud I am once again of this church (2:39) and how you've responded to the needs of our community around us.

(2:43) It's been a challenging week. And once...

I'll tell you, as we continue in our Practicing Presence sermon series, that as I sat down (2:33) this week to begin preparing for this week's sermon, no matter when it was going to be (2:38) preached, I knew it was going to be preached at...

So I brought something with me this morning. I brought my ping-pong ball again this week. If you were here last week you know that I used one of these or a lot of these to teach our our children in the children's moment about the power...

Our Scripture reading for this Sunday is from John's gospel, the first chapter of the verse 14 verses. Let us hear together from God's Word: "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was with God...