With you. In you. Forever.

What if the deepest thing God offers us is not control but presence?

In John 14, Jesus tells his disciples: “I will not leave you orphaned.” This sermon explores how experiences of absence—especially paternal absence—can shape the way we imagine God, and why Jesus responds not with promises of control, but with the promise of presence.

Drawing from psychology, theology, and the film Sentimental Value, this reflection considers abandonment and the human desire for a home that does not disappear.

John 14:15-21 15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. 17 This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him because he abides with you, and he will be in you.

18 “I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. 19 In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 21 They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me, and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.”

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