Love, Sweet Love
[May 10, 2026, Saint Barnabas Lutheran Church, Howard Beach, Queens, N.Y.] As I was reading Jesus’ farewell discourse in John 14, a lilting melody was swirling through my head. Lord, we don't need another meadow There are corn fields and wheat fields enough to grow There are sunbeams and moonbeams enough to shine Oh listen Lord, if You want to know What the world needs now is love, sweet love It's the only thing that there's just too little of What the world needs now is love, sweet love No, not just for some, oh, but just for every, every everyone Love, sweet love. This is what Jesus is promising his disciples as the time comes to leave them. Love. Not merely the love of country or the love of family. Not merely the love of a mother for a child. Not merely the romantic love between two people. Jesus is talking about the very love that brings the universe into existence. The love we know as truth. The love we know as God. Agape love. The highest form of Christian love...