PK a week ago. . .

I went home for Thanksgiving, naturally, and went to my home church service. Though it is quite different than the church I attend in aa, it's my home church and I will always be happy to go back and see familiar faces.

This past Sunday (not today, but last week), PK did a fantastic sermon on dedication to Christ. The jist of sermon was that we should give everything we have to God and be willing to give up whatever we need to follow and be more like Him. He pulled from Luke, of course, and talked about when Peter denied Christ three times and that Jesus predicted this. He went on to talk about how Jesus gave up everything knowingly for us and our sins. He came down from Heaven as man, knowing that he would have to live a perfect life in order to save us from our sinful lives. He gave up His entire life and everything sinful in it so that we could be saved, yet we can't commit ourselves anywhere near that proximity. We struggle to wake up and go to church instead of sleeping in. We debate on watching TV over pulling out our Bibles and studying God's living Word. We commit sins every day, we are only human. But there are so many things, if we just dedicated ourselves to Christ, that we could avoid.

There was more to the sermon, but I left my notes at home . . .

but there was this one analogy he told that really hit home. . . excuse the lack on information. This was a week ago and though I remember the gist of it, I can't quite recall it word-for-word.

A german soldier was trying for a promotion during one of the wars and had done everything they had every asked of him. He also had a dog who did everything he asked of her. She obeyed his every command, whether it was rolling over, laying down, going outside. She was loyal to him in every way possible and he loved her with the deepest, utmost affection than anyone or anything else.

He went to his commanding officer to learn what his final task would be before being promoted. His officer told him that in order to be promoted, his final task would be to kill his dog with his own hands. They wanted to make sure he could deal mentally with killing someone, or something, without any emotions.

and at that, he turned around to face his dog, grabbed her neck, put her in a choke, and snapped her neck.

The officer responded that he would do the military a great service.

At the end of the story, PK let everything settle and then said this. . .

A man with so much hatred, a heart of complete stone, showed enough dedication to kill the one thing in his entire life that he loved deeply. How can we have someone so horrible show so much dedication but us with so much love, cannot match that?

My explanation really doesn't do his sermon justice. Go here to get the entire sermon as well as the sermon outline. It's really worth downloading and listening to : )