Sermon Archive (Page 132)

And in his life Jesus taught us….he taught us about one concept, one idea, one great commandment….love. A love that is so wide that it includes everyone, even those we think don’t deserve it. Even those whose ticks in their column in the ledger doesn’t contain nearly as many as ours. It’s a hard, hard lesson, this grace. Hard for those of us who want…

And that brings me to the last cross I brought with me today. I made this cross on internship, as a Vacation Bible School project with a group of high school students. We started with a collection of tiles – on the back of them we wrote of the things in our lives that were hard, things about ourselves, people who had disappointed us, struggles we had within ourselves…

What we learn from this wonderful story of Bel and the Dragon, then, is to be certain that what we are doing in serving our God is not for our own good. We need to be certain that we are not serving others because it makes US feel good or that we aren’t sharing the Gospel because it makes US look…