Agapē: The Greatest of These

1 John 4 declares that God is love, and everything He does flows from who He is. This message explores six characteristics of God's agape love: it is visible in Jesus, intentional, sacrificial, serving the unlovable, atoning for the sinful, and eternal, reminding us that nothing can separate us from the love of God.

There is a difference between knowing about Jesus and knowing Him personally. This message explores who Jesus is as sovereign, gentle, and Savior, and how we love God in return by spending time with Him, living according to His commands, and surrendering our entire lives to Him.

Jesus said the entire law hangs on two commands: love God and love others. This message explores how agape radically simplifies the Bible while radically raising the bar, why we cannot produce this supernatural love on our own, and how God's agape toward us becomes our source for loving the people around us.

In Luke 6, Jesus commands us to love our enemies, and He never asks us to do what He has not already done Himself. This message explores who around us is hard to love, how we cannot control whether someone sees us as an enemy but can control how we see them, and the surprising impact of loving through the eyes of Jesus.

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but the idea that words never hurt is a lie. This message explores Proverbs 18:21 and the power of the tongue to bring death or life, and shows three ways to love with our words: speaking truth in love outwardly, building others up, and speaking God's truth to ourselves inwardly.