Clothe yourself with Love Col. 3:14

  Imagine we are at Calvary! It was called the place of the skull. How fitting! Lives are taken! Our modern Calvary would be like the electric chair or the fatal injection. Now imagine we are there, on your left there are women wailing, on your right a crowd watching Jesus on the cross and in front of them, the leaders and the soldiers taunting and scoffing at Jesus saying King save yourself! Just like we also ask Jesus you are God why don’t you intervene in my case! For the purpose of this sermon I have brought a real cross with an inscription on it: King of the Jews: Scandal. The two criminals who were crucified with Jesus one on each of his side, their inscription clearly says what crime they did to deserve death. Jesus was condemned to death for being: King of the Jews. Today we celebrate the feast of Christ the King, yet it doesn’t seem like a celebration, does it? because there is wailing, and suffering on the cross! The crown of thorns brought out blood all over Jesus’...

You might have heard a phrase that says: “A purposeless life is not worth living!” Some people get good meaning in their lives when they aspire to great achievements! The Guinness world record features people who have reached their particular area highest achievement in the world. Some of it gross me out, but It’s record-breaking! It takes a special talent. We admire great achievements (Oscars and Grammy's you name it!), in fact, the apostle Paul encourages believers to follow Jesus with determination, to outdo each other in respecting each other! Yet I somehow see a difference because a Christian life isn’t geared towards record breaking! It’s not our ultimate goal! our ultimate goal is finishing the race. Well What can I say? Competing is in our nature. We want to know who is the very best among us. The Roman church has a whole department that deals with sainthood. People who have been exceptional in their spiritual journey here on earth. A journey we wish we can emulat...