BOB PEDEN
Good morning this is Bob Peden of Central United Methodist Church. The Muslim people have a phrase they use in worship and other settings: Allah Akbar. It simply means God is great. Allah is not the name of their God but rather the Arabic word for God. Akbar means great or the greatest.
We Christians also affirm that God is great, but we learn in our earliest prayers that not only is God great, but God is good. Indeed, God who is great but is not good is one to be feared and avoided at all costs. But God who is good as well as great is someone we can trust with our very lives. And indeed, God is not just good, or even very good, God is love.
At Central United Methodist Church we know and worship this God who is love. We trust and serve him knowing that he always wants what is best for us. And we love him with all our hearts, because he is the one who put love in our hearts and showed us his love for us on the cross of Calvary. Yes God is great - but more importantly, God is good, and I thank him for his love.
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