If You Love Me
This sermon was preached at our Sunday morning service on 10th May 2026, the week of the local elections in the UK. The Gospel was John 14:15-21 . My sermon this morning is not a complicated one. It holds no deep esoteric theology. There is no secret knowledge that I will impart. Instead, I’m going to look at just a few words from our Gospel reading today. All very simple words. Well, most of them anyway. “If you love me, you will keep my commandments”. These nine words from Jesus at the beginning of our Gospel reading are straight-forward. All but one of them have four letters or less. They’re all easily understood with little context. All but one, maybe. If you love me, you will keep my commandments. Those people who don’t know Jesus – who, in not knowing him, don’t yet love him – won’t know what commandments he is talking about here. But for those of us who do, connections will be being made in our heads as we think about this phra...