Month: November 2025
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The Path to True Community: How Love Shaped the Early Church
We have been discussing love, and today I want us to talk about how love is essential in forming true community. Love and community are existentially important for us as humans. Without them, none of us could survive or flourish. So I want us to look at how community actually forms and how love shapes…
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Self-love In Practice
Last time, we looked at the theory of self-love. Today, I want us to consider the practice—how it works in action. I think we often fail to understand self-love because we lack role models who truly embody it. Today, I want us to look at Jesus as a model of self-love. Yes, Jesus—who gave His…
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As Yourself: The Spiritual Work of Self-Love
Matthew 22:34–40 — The Greatest Commandment34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with…