Western culture prioritizes personal comfort and goes to great lengths to avoid discomfort. In the opening lines of 2 Corinthians, Paul calls God the "God of all comfort." This is a different comfort, and this sermon differentiates between the underlying ideas.

Scott Delamater

Elder, United Church of God

Scott Delamater is minister of the United Church of God and software engineer for a national IT company. He and his wife Michelle serve in the Cincinnati East congregation and have three sons.