S6E42: The Greatest Love (Epiphany 2019)

Sermon #320

Those of us in English-speaking countries throw the word "love" around a lot.  I love this movie.  I love that burger.  I love my country.  But we also allow the dilution of the word to creep into our vocabulary in the church.  Love is love.  Love trumps all.  From 1 Corinthians 13 we learn that the love we often talk about is not the love that Jesus commanded us to have for each other, or the kind of love that is held up as the greatest love.  The greatest love of all is not learning to love yourself, as Whitney Houston sang.  Rather it is to love others before myself, and to do so sacrificially, the way God modelled love on the cross of Christ.

Recorded at Hudson UMC on February 3, 2019 (Originally published February 4, 2019)

S.D.G.