Love Does
Dec 28 2025 • Cedrick Baker, Dan Kent, Greg Boyd, Sandra Unger, Shawna Boren
Jesus didn’t just define love, he demonstrated it. In a world that talks about love but struggles to live it, how can we exemplify the love that Paul describes in 1 Corinthians 13? We need a love that is more than lip service – we need a love that moves and acts. Join us for this series as we remember that love isn’t simply thought or felt. Love does!
Sermons in this series:
This sermon by Greg Boyd shows us that love is more than simply not wronging others. The love of God actually means that we are not delighting or celebrating the wrongdoing. The motivations of our heart are shaped by love and therefore produce the fruit of loving action.
Topics: Judgment,
Kingdom of God,
Love
Love does not keep a record of things done wrong and love believes the best of others. Sandra Unger names how difficult it is to walk in these two aspects of agape love. She names how keeping a record of wrongs undermines love and provides insights into how we can move away from this all-too-common practice.
Topics: Judgment,
Love,
Relationships
Cedrick Baker invites us to look at love in action as extreme measures for the welfare of the other. Reflecting on the extreme measures of the Incarnation and the Cross, we are called to bless the other at cost to ourselves.
Topics: Love,
Non-Violence,
Sacrifice
Paul wrote that love does not envy or boast. Yet these two practices are woven into modern life to such a degree that many cannot see any other option. Shawna Boren unpacks how envy and boasting undermine the practice of love and then shows us a better way, a way out and into agape love.
Topics: Gratitude,
Love,
Relationships
Greg Boyd teaches us that to dishonor others is to play the “king of the hill” game where everyone is trying to climb the social ladder at the expense of others. Love refuses to play the game of shaming another to benefit self. Instead, love honors others just as God honors us.
Topics: Judgment,
Love,
Power
This first sermon in the “Love Does” series highlights the action of trust. Dan Kent explores the way that God trusts, the call to be trustworthy in our relationship with God and how to grow in our trust of one another. This challenge to the worldly pattern of distrust invites us to manifest love in concrete and practical ways.
Topics: Faithfulness,
Love,
Relationships
