It’s a good feeling to have your sermon done on Thursday!
Great sermon. Thanks for the ping.
I like this quotation from St. Augustine of Hippo:
And yet our Lord loved Lazarus. For had He not loved sinners, He would never have come down from heaven to save them. Well is it said of one of sinful habits, that He stinks. He has a bad report already, as it were the foulest odor.
Yet nevertheless he loves us, that we might be transformed into the "sweet aroma of Christ".