Teach Me About God...

This is a subject that I will most surely elaborate on when I have the time and energy, but I feel compelled to at least touch on it now. While I have been in Portland I have been visiting churches in order to find a church home (which I think I have done) and to see what the state of preaching/teaching is in the Portland area. One thing is painfully obvious- we as Christians like to talk about the love of God a whole lot more than we like to talk about God, and we seem to like God because of the things He gives us rather than because of who He truly is. God is indeed loving, but He is also worthy, reigning, glorious, mighty, just, wrathful, sovereign, kind, gracious, merciful, and compassionate, and this is obviously not a complete list. Read Leviticus and then try and tell me that there are enough sermons on the holiness of God. Why is no one preaching on this? Why are we not learning to love God for who He is as He has reavealed to us through the Word? And even if we want to argue that love is God's greatest and most defining attribute, why so little explanation or even mention of the cross? Why so little teaching on the moment at which God's love for us is most clearly and acutely detailed? If you go to a church that teaches the cross, that teaches God as He has revealed Himself, then praise God! If you do not, please beg your pastor to take you to the cross that you may meet God there and learn to love Jesus with everything you've got for everything He is!