Love Is
Sep 07 2025 • Cedrick Baker, Dan Kent, Greg Boyd, Shawna Boren
In 1 Corinthians 13, the Apostle Paul lays out a bold, countercultural vision of love. Love is not wedding day poetry, Paul says. Instead, love is patient and kind. Love is not proud, or self-seeking, or easily-angered. Love reflects the self-sacrificial, other-oriented, agape love of the cross. In this series we look at what it means to love like this—to love like Jesus.
Sermons in this series:
Shawna Boren looks at the phrase “love is not easily angered,” which is an appropriate challenge in our current culture. She names what anger is and how it undermines love. Then she gives insight into how we can navigate this emotion in healthy ways.
Topics: Fear,
Love,
Relationships
Dan Kent introduces the problem of pride and how it is rooted in hierarchical systems where we measure ourselves against others. We are unable to love others when we are constantly evaluating them and ourselves. We must opt out of this system and learn to see all as equals, all equally loved.
Topics: Love,
Politics,
Power
Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13 that love is kind. Greg Boyd highlights kindness as a way of life that can revolutionize the world in which we live. He also calls us to slow down so that we make space in our lives for being kind and therefore live in love with one another.
Topics: Community,
Love
This sermon challenges the pattern of selfishness as a contrast to the call to agape love. Through this teaching, we learn how selfishness undermines our call to be like Christ and practical ways we can address the selfishness that creeps into our lives.
Topics: Community,
Love,
Sacrifice
Greg introduces a new series on love by examining the four Greek terms that are commonly translated as the English word “love,” thus clarifying what love is and what it means to love as God does. He then takes us through the first three verses of 1 Corinthians 13 to demonstrate why love is so crucial to our walk with God.
Topics: Covenant,
Faithfulness,
Love
