Our God is Great as God is Good

The great African-American preacher Gardner Taylor, preacher of the Concord Baptist Church in Brooklyn for over 40 years, begins one of his sermons with a paean to the God revealed to us in the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments. What comes up are some of the major themes of God’s character throughout scripture: God’s goodness, God’s eternality, God’s perfection. God’s love:

Our God is as great as God is good and as good as God is great, and this is to say marvelous things about both God’s goodness and God’s greatness. The God we serve merits our reverence, bowed…