A Gift of Love

The classic collection of 16 sermons preached and compiled by Dr. Martin Luther King, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and one of the greatest orators in U.S. history

As Dr. King prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his most best-known homilies. King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in jail in July 1962. While behind bars, he spent uninterrupted time preparing the drafts for works such as “Loving Your Enemies” and “Shattered Dreams,” and he continued to edit the volume after his release. 

Full Sermon List:

1. A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart
2. Transformed Nonconformist
3. On Being a Good Neighbor
4. Love in action
5. Loving Your Enemies
6. A Knock at Midnight
7. The Man Who Was a Fool
8. The Death of Evil Upon the Seashore
9. Shattered Dreams
10. Our God is Able
11. Antidotes for Fear
12. The Answer to a Perplexing Question
13. Paul’s Letter to American Christians
14. Pilgrimage to nonviolence
15. The Drum Major Instinct
16. The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life

A Gift of Love includes most of the classic sermons from Strength to Love, along with 2 new sermons. Collectively they present King’s fusion of Christian teachings and social consciousness, and promote his prescient vision of love as a social and political force for change.