Certain passages in the plays are so universally true and so stirring that over the years they’ve become Shakespeare’s signatures. They’re how we know his mind. 

Psalm 23, The Lord’s Prayer, and I Corinthians 13 are to the Bible what the words of Hamlet, Macbeth, and Gloucester are to Shakespeare. They’re signatures. They’re how we know the Bible’s mind. Not everyone knows the Bible end to end or can even tell you its simple plot, but we all know these words. 

Over the last decade your preachers have covered The Lord’s Prayer and Psalm 23. Now it’s time to tackle the last item in the trifecta. It’s the law. They’ll take our ordination away if we don’t cover it. 

Henry Drummond (1851–1897), a Scottish scientist and preacher, once preached a sermon called The Greatest Thing in the World that was so popular they turned it into a thin book that’s never gone out of print. 

It might be too nineteenth-century and evangelical for us to get much use out of it today, but Katie, Christine, and I will use Dr. Drummond’s basic scaffolding to cover I Corinthians 13 this fall in a sermon series called The Greatest of These…