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Night Visit -- A Sermon for Trinity Sunday

John 3:1-17 It’s easy to get lost in the darkness of night.  It’s hard to get your bearings when familiar landmarks disappear into the background.  You think you know where you’re going and end up somewhere else.  It happens to me with some regularity.   I remember one evening, back when I was in college, I ended up driving my car into a field.  I was, at the moment, on a date, and after my date’s futile attempt to help me stay up on roller skates, we decided to take a drive out to Bonanza, a very small farming town east of Klamath Falls.  Now,  I really didn’t intend to end up in that field, but under the cover of darkness, I didn’t know where I was going.   And no, nothing happened!  I was a perfect gentleman, or better – I was rather shy!  Nicodemus didn’t end up driving into a field, but you could say that in a spiritual way, he got lost in the night.  According to John, Nicodemus, a religious leader and t...