Show Don't Tell: John 1:1-5

Imagine standing on the shores of a vast, untouched ocean at dawn. The sky is painted in the delicate hues of a new day, the soft brush of light stretching across the water, revealing the depths of its mystery. This is how John invites us into the story of Jesus. "In the beginning was the Word," he writes, and with those words, we are thrust into an eternity that predates creation itself, before the first whispers of bereshit (Hebrew for "in the beginning") echoed through the cosmos.…