Rev Bill

I have posted my sermon from today on my sermon blog. Based on Luke 7:36-50 it is entitled “Remember To Love”.

Here’s a portion of it:

A minister who works at a large city church tells the story of a prostitute he befriended as she came to his church for food.
Maggie was her name.
The first time he saw her, he says, she was selling herself on the street like hundreds of other runaway teenagers he had seen before. Lost in the big city, doing what they had to do to survive. Most of them were the used, abused, and neglected of the world — the children whose experience had convinced them they were unloved and unlovable.
His church offered them hot coffee, sandwiches, and a safe place to sleep if they wanted it. Some just took the coffee and the food and went straight back into the night. Maggie was one of those. But — one night Maggie hung around. She seemed to need to talk, so the minister sat beside her on the curb and listened. She told him about her family — the abuse she had taken from her father — how she had run away. And how she now felt that no one loved her.
The minister assured her that God really loved her.
She shook her head “no” and walked away.
A few weeks later he saw her again – and they started talking. He again assured her of God’s love. This happened for several months – until finally one night she said she wanted to give her life to God.
If God could love her, she said, she could love Him.

That’s what it’s all about, my friends.
That’s what it means to remember to love.

You can read the entire sermon here.

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