John 15.9-17 Revelation 21.1-4 Speaking Notes – Caveat These notes are my speaking notes and are provided as an accompaniment to the recording. Please accept that they are not intended to be a published grammatically correct essay. I do hope and pray however they help you move towards Jesus. Now onto the content… Sacrifice: An act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important or worthy: That is how the dictionary describes the term sacrifice. Today is the Sunday that we perhaps use that word more than any other. Today many will take two minutes to consider the service that men and women have made in the defense of our freedom. I said last year and I say again today, two minutes hardly seems enough for those who paid such a sacrifice, many of whom paid the greatest of sacrifices. Perhaps the greatest way we can honour these men and women is by using the verse we use today to remember them.   Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. When we say those words we are comparing their sacrifice to the sacrifice that our Lord and Saviour made. High honour indeed. If you have ever attended an Alpha course you may have seen a video or heard a speaker once again comparing the sacrifice of those who suffered in war to that our Lord. The story goes that on 31 July 1941 a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz. As a reprisal the Gestapo selected ten men to die in a underground starvation bunker. Francis, one of the men who were selected to die cried out:, `Ah, my poor wife and my children. They’ll never see me again.’ At that moment, a Polish man — unimpressive-looking... Read More The post Remembrance 2019 – A Response of Unity & Love appeared first on Bedhampton Church.