Wholehearted
Mar 09 2025 • Cedrick Baker, Dan Kent, Greg Boyd, Sandra Unger
Jesus told us to love God with our whole heart, and he has given us the spiritual practices we need to align our heart with his. Through intentional actions, we shape ourselves to become better lovers of God, ourselves, others and creation! Join us as we talk about the practicalities of learning to love together, with our whole hearts.
Sermons in this series:
Life in godly unity requires that the real you shows up. However, no one has it all together. We can either pretend we do and remain disconnected, or we can adopt the practice of confession and learn to love one another through the reality of weakness and even failure. Dan Kent shows us what biblical confession is, what it is not, and then points us toward practical steps to move into honest confession.
Topics: Community,
Relationships,
Repentance
We are better together and the way we use our tongues will either promote or destroy our togetherness. Greg Boyd shows us how Scripture views the power of the tongue and how it can be used for ill or for good.
Topics: Community,
Judgment,
Relationships
How do we experience the reality of being God’s family in practical ways? This question is especially crucial in a world that promotes judgment, division and isolation. Dan Kent addresses this by highlighting the instruction to “bear with each other.” Living in love does not mean only embracing those who are easy to love. Real love calls us to embrace those who require patient endurance. In this way, we reflect the love of the cross.
Topics: Community,
Forgiveness,
Relationships
This sermon by Shawna Boren unpacks regarding people from a human point of view and then guides us to take practical steps to view people as God views them. This is the way that we live in love as Christ loved us.
Topics: Community,
Conflict,
Identity in Christ
Greg Boyd opens our new series “Better Together” with a sermon on the biblical call to participate as a member of God’s family. Because the patterns of modern culture divide us, it’s a challenge to shift from an isolated “me” to a collective “we,” but God connects us so that we might live in love alongside one another.
Topics: Community,
Family,
Individualism
Greg concludes the Love Does series with a look at Paul’s statement that love rejoices in the truth in contrast with not delighting in wrongdoing. He then connects the contrast between truth and wrongdoing to demonstrate how right relatedness is truthful and how this is the way we live in love.
Topics: Judgment,
Love,
Sin
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
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