Love Made Visible (1 John 4:7-12)

Family Ministries intern Morgan Garrett builds this sermon around a childhood neighbor, a pastor named Paul who Morgan knew only as a warm, playful presence, never once talking theology, until learning after his death that he'd led a Gulf Coast diocese through the recovery from Hurricane Katrina. From there, Morgan turns to 1 John's claim that no one has seen God, and asks how God's love becomes visible anyway: through the body, through incarnation, and through a children's book about a village with no windows, where God turns out to live in the space between people. It's a gentle case for the old phrase "preach the gospel at all times, use words when necessary," landing, unexpectedly, by way of Dolly Parton. Sermon date: August 30, 2026