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LLUC - INTRODUCTION TO THE SERMON Each year, scheduled as close to Memorial Day as we can, there is a special segment in our worship service dedicated to individuals in our congregation who have died in the past year. Today, at the end of the service, we will show their pictures. It is always a time that brings back the memories of these precious souls. As today’s service unfolds, I hope that you will pray for the family members left behind. And even more, pick up the phone this week and spend some time comforting a bereaved friend. Today’s passage, found in John 13, leads us into the last discourse of Jesus recorded in the latter half of John’s gospel. It is a discourse filled with some of the most precious and profound teaching of his life. Today’s verse—which calls on us to join him in creating and maintaining a community of faith that is characterized by love—is both a challenge and a promise. It is a challenge because his words form a command. “Love one another,” in other words, is not a suggestion. It is a promise because “all his biddings are enablings” (Ellen G. White, Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 333). I have chosen to connect these two realities—our In Memory service and the passage in John’s gospel—because these words of Jesus’ are among his last. They remind us that In the End… what really matters is love. May God’s love be yours. Randy Roberts Senior Pastor
Posted on: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:39:07 +0000

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