St Timothy Presbyterian Church

Scripture Passage 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Sermon Text Selflessness and Resilience When I think of mother's love, two words come to mind. They are selfless and resilient. For me, these two words capture the essence of today's passage, and what mother's love is. First, it is selfless in a sense that a mother's love is totally (and entirely) for their child – it's a one-way kind of love. They don't ask anything of us; they simply love us. We're the most precious thing in their eyes. It's not the kind of love that's negotiable or calculating. It doesn't depend on what we can do for them. But it is all about us; and as St. Paul said, “it doesn't insist on its own way.” They will do anything for us because we are theirs. There is a KSM YP group that meets on Wednesday evenings. All of the different groups in the church have been going through the Gospel of Mark. One week, our conversation digressed at one point. We started talking about relationships between parents and children, which really had nothing to do with