Topic: Love


The Advantage of the Disadvantaged12/24/11

The Advantage of the Disadvantaged
  • Speaker – Greg Boyd
     
  • Topics – Love, Power, Blessings
  • In our world, we all strive to gain advantages to have a better life. However, the truth of the Kingdom is captured in the story of a crippled lamb. Greg shows us how, in the Kingdom, having advantages can be a disadvantage, and having a disadvantage can be an advantage.

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Say Yes to Arranged Marriages11/06/11

Say Yes to Arranged Marriages
  • Speakers – Greg Boyd, Christena Cleveland
     
  • Topics – Love, Marriage, Family
  • In ancient times, fathers would arrange marriages for their sons and daughters. In modern times, it is the individuals who broker their own marriage deals. We live in a consumerist dating era where people can pick their own mate. In this sermon, Greg and Christina Cleveland give a few guiding principles on how to date in the modern world, and they also give insight into who should really be brokering our marriage deals.

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God Look-Alikes09/25/11

God Look-Alikes
  • Speaker – Greg Boyd
     
  • Topics – Identity in Christ, Love, Presence of God
  • We were created in God’s image, to represent Him on Earth. In ancient times, people would make statues to represent their gods, but we were commanded to represent God, not make statues. In this sermon, Greg talks about our value as God’s image and the role we play in this world.

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Christmas Eve12/24/10

Christmas Eve
  • Speaker – Greg Boyd
     
  • Topics – Creation, Love, Gratitude
  • Christmas is the day that we celebrate the birth of Jesus and of God incarnate. For most of us, this day is celebrated in a fog of normalcy. The birth of Jesus has become old news that we’ve celebrated before. The greatest truth—a beautiful, profound, mysterious, and wonderful truth—is shrouded in the boredom of the same old story, and we lose the vision of the uniqueness of Jesus’ birth. God wants us to open our heart to the beauty of this universe, and He wants us to ask Him to keep us awake to the vibrant beauty of this story.

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Debt Free09/19/10

Debt Free
  • Speaker – Greg Boyd
     
  • Topics – Forgiveness, Love, Reconciliation, Relationships, Repentance
  • When Jesus prayed from the cross, “Father, forgive them …” he was expressing the radical love of the Father that extends forgiveness to all the world. While such an expression of forgiveness is far from typical, it contains the ability to heal, transform hearts and release people to forgive others.

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Old Peter / New Peter08/22/10

Old Peter / New Peter
  • Speaker – Greg Boyd
     
  • Topics – Fear, Love, Non-Violence
  • The Apostle Peter had to learn the hard way how to follow Jesus. His three denials of Christ—and then three affirmations of love—marked the major turning point away from fear and toward imitating Christ.

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Living In God's Peace08/15/10

Living In God's Peace

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Why Jesus?08/08/10

Why Jesus?
  • Speaker – Bruxy Cavey
     
  • Topics – Kingdom of God, Love, Sin, Peace
  • Bruxy Cavey, our guest speaker from The Meeting House church in Canda, preached that gospel is the good news that God has come to us! God has done this to show God's love, save us from sin, set up the Kingdom of God and shut down religion.

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Futile the Fig Leaf07/11/10

Futile the Fig Leaf
  • Speaker – Kevin Johnson
     
  • Topics – Grace, Love, Repentance
  • As children, we learn to play “hide-and-seek” with our siblings, parents and friends. Many of us continue to play this game with God as adults. Kevin Johnson challenges us to turn to God with our whole heart and receive God’s mercy and grace.

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Transforming Love06/27/10

Transforming Love
  • Speaker – Shawna Boren
     
  • Topics – Love, Prayer
  • Ephesians 3:14-19 is perhaps one of the most powerful descriptions of love we find in Paul’s writings. The love Paul speaks of is so great he is forced to press the boundaries of language to express it.

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The Lost Party06/20/10

The Lost Party
  • Speaker – Greg Boyd
     
  • Topics – Joy, Love
  • In the parables of the lost sheep, the lost son, and the lost coin, it becomes clear that it is we who are lost and God who seeks to find us. Those in the position of danger are the ones who presume upon their relationships with God.

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Breaking From Greenspan06/13/10

Breaking From Greenspan
  • Speaker – Greg Boyd
     
  • Topics – Identity in Christ, Love
  • In the parable of the lost coin, the woman calls her friends and neighbors together to rejoice with her when she finds it. Greg explores why she was so excited to recover a single coin of seemingly limited value.

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Brotherly Loathe06/06/10

Brotherly Loathe
  • Speaker – Greg Boyd
     
  • Topics – Judgment, Love, Covenant
  • In the story of the prodigal son, the focus is typically on the younger son who runs away and squanders his father’s wealth frivolously. His sin is as obvious as his disobedience. The elder son is also relating badly to his father, but in a more subtle way.

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Prodigal God05/30/10

Prodigal God
  • Speaker – Greg Boyd
     
  • Topics – Forgiveness, Love
  • Typically, we call the famous parable by Jesus “The Prodigal Son,” but that title is actually a bit misleading. The point of the parable is not the younger (Prodigal) son’s recklessly extravagant living. Instead, it’s about God’s recklessly extravagant love.

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Empowering Love05/23/10

Empowering Love
  • Speaker – Greg Boyd
     
  • Topics – Identity in Christ, Love
  • We, as Jesus followers, are called to reflect God’s love in this world. We are to live lives of love, as imitators of God. We are to do everything in love and live in the unity of love with other Christ followers.

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Returning Love05/16/10

Returning Love
  • Speaker – Scott Boren
     
  • Topics – Love, Transformation
  • God's love for us is overwhelming! But that's not the whole story. As we receive God's love we are able to return that love to God and others.

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Burning Love05/09/10

Burning Love
  • Speaker – Greg Boyd
     
  • Topics – Love, Pain & Suffering
  • God’s desire for us is that we become all that God created us to be. Life is the process in which we can resist or yield to God’s desire for us. When we yield we sense God’s burning love as warm and liberating. When we resist we experience God’s burning love as pain and wrath.

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Victorious Love05/02/10

Victorious Love
  • Speaker – Greg Boyd
     
  • Topics – Love, Sacrifice, Power
  • God’s love is victorious! But perhaps not in the way that you’d expect. We often associate victory with our ability to control or defeat others but God’s victory encourages our freedom rather than squelches it. (We love discovering art that connects us to God in unique ways. Thank you to Dale Johnson for incorporating his art into this weekend's sermon.)

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Covenantal Love04/25/10

Covenantal Love
  • Speaker – Greg Boyd
     
  • Topics – Love, Sacrifice, Covenant
  • The love of God expressed in Christ on the cross shows the radical lengths God is willing to go to restore us. This healing of our relationship with God takes the form of a covenant, not a contract.

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God Is Love04/18/10

God Is Love
  • Speaker – Greg Boyd
     
  • Topics – Love, Power
  • The love of God expressed in Christ on the cross was “foolishness to the Gentiles” and “a stumbling block to the Jews”. God’s love is scandalous to us all in different ways.

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Love Is...04/11/10

Love Is...
  • Speaker – Greg Boyd
     
  • Topics – Love, Sacrifice
  • It is impossible to fully grasp God's love because it is infinite! The best we can do is humbly recognize our limitations in this way and give ourselves over to the overwhelming love that God extends to us.

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The Wailing God07/26/09

The Wailing God
  • Speaker – Greg Boyd
     
  • Topics – Judgment, Love, God's Will
  • When Jesus entered Jerusalem he wept as he foretold its destruction. This is important because we gain an profound awareness of how it pains God when we resist him.

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What God Really Wants (It Ain't Nothin' New)05/24/09

What God Really Wants (It Ain't Nothin' New)
  • Speaker – Dwayne Polk
     
  • Topics – Love, Pain & Suffering, Justice
  • There is a consistent and persistent message God has been sending through both the Old and New Testaments: Love your neighbor as yourself. And everyone is your neighbor! What was recorded as law in Lev. 19 was echoed by the prophets and reiterated by Jesus in the gospels.

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God is Waiting11/09/08

God is Waiting
  • Speaker – Greg Boyd
     
  • Topics – Grace, Love, Free Will
  • In the parable of the Prodigal Son, Jesus teaches about the love of God. Instead of using his power to force us to choose what’s best, God loves us so much that he gives us room to cause him pain in our relationship with him. And then when we do, he waits for us to return to him and runs to meet us. God runs to us because he loves us more than we can fathom.

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The Lord is My Shepherd10/26/08

The Lord is My Shepherd
  • Speaker – Shawna Boren
     
  • Topics – Grace, Love
  • In the familiar Parable of the Lost Sheep, Jesus shows us a God who, out of his great love, goes after outcasts deprived of opportunities, safety and rights. Sharing from her own personal experience, Shawna illustrates this love and helps us understand the extreme nature of God’s goodness.

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