Radical Love
Rooted in Radical Love: Broken Heart
May 26, 2024 • Elder Mary Jackson
We will all endure heartbreak in this life. There are many ways our hearts can be broken, the death of loved ones, divorce, betrayal, job loss, financial ruin, health challenges, estrangements, inequities, and the death of a vision, to name a few. Losses can distort our hearts and keep us from the radical love God offers. God’s desire is to heal our broken hearts to expand our capacity to both receive and release His love.
Rooted in Radical Love: Radical Love is All Inclusive
May 19, 2024 • Pastor Kevin Brown
Radical love is unlike storge love, it’s different from eros love and it goes beyond phileo love. Those loves are exclusively for family, our romantic interests and our closest friends. But radical love does not exclude anyone for anything. It willingly accepts all things, in order to make all things new. Radical love is all inclusive.
Radical Love: Renew My Heart
May 5, 2024 • Elder Mike Dixon
The seed of the Word of the Radical Love of God is being planted in our hearts. However, the soil of our hearts must be properly prepared and cultivated for the seed to take root and bring forth much fruit in our homes and our communities for the glory of God.
Rooted In Radical Love: Radical Love Rejoices in Truth Not Evil
April 28, 2024 • Pastor Kevin Brown
“What is truth?”, asked Pontius Pilate the fifth governor of the Roman province of Judaea, as he presided over the trial and ultimately the crucifixion of Jesus. It’s a question worth asking in a world where truth is not absolute; truth is no longer black and white nor is it the same in everyone’s eyes. We live in a world where truth is subject to change. But radical love rejoices in the truth; it refuses to rejoice with evil, injustice or iniquity. Radical love is committed to truth and truth is committed to radical love.
Rooted in Radical Love: Keeps No Record of Wrongs
April 21, 2024 • Pastor Kevin Brown
To know Jesus is to be in an on-going, life-transforming, life-transferring relationship with radical love. Radical Love keeps no record of our wrongs and then empowers us to keep no record of wrongs. Radical Love is not simply something to be experienced, it’s something to be accessed daily. If we don’t access radical love daily, we will be redeemed from sin and death and still be dysfunctional in our everyday lives. Radical love teaches us to keep no record of wrongs.
Rooted In Radical Love: Radical Love Ain't Rude
April 14, 2024 • Pastor Kevin Brown
Sometimes we can more clearly explain what something is by explaining what it’s not. Radical love ain’t rude. Rude is ill-mannered and disagreeable towards others. But rude is more than that, it’s also ill-mannered and disagreeable towards God. Rude wants what it wants, when it wants from God and everybody else. But those who walk in radical love are yielding their rights, seeing past themselves and learning to rest knowing God is fighting for them.
Radical Love: The Highest Love
April 7, 2024 • Pastor Bob Roberts
The command to love our enemies is a command to live out the highest love. There’s nothing more radical than loving our enemies. It is the most radical thing that Jesus has called us to do. When we commit to loving our enemies we’ve committed to love like Jesus loves.
Radical - He is Risen and We Are Restored
March 31, 2024 • Pastor Kevin Brown
God-Yahweh Elohim the covenant making promise keeping God, made a promise to mankind in the garden of Eden over 2,000 years ago. He promised He would crush the head of the serpent by the seed of a woman. Jesus was that seed and He has indeed crushed the government of satan in the earth and given us life and life more abundantly in Him and the government of His Kingdom. This morning we celebrate…He is Risen and we are restored.
Radical: The Mindset of Radical Love
March 24, 2024 • Pastor Kevin Brown
As Jesus descends from the Mount of Olives into Jerusalem, He knows it will be the last week of His life. On Palm Sunday He faces the painful reality that His greatest impact will be through His most difficult and lonely moments in this world. The mindset of radical love is more interested in God’s plans and purposes than our own promotion and preservation. Palm Sunday teaches us that obedient faithfulness to radical Love is what takes us to places we never imagined.
Rooted in Radical Love: Radical Love Is Not Proud
March 17, 2024 • Elder Mike Dixon
Pride is a root which the enemy sows in our hearts to choke the fruitfulness of love in our lives. In our pride-filled American culture, we are called not to conform to this world, but to be hypervigilant to recognize and eliminate the weeds of pride from our hearts so we can bring forth fruit for the glory of the Kingdom of God.
Rooted in Radical Love: Radical Love Is Not Jealous or Envious
March 10, 2024 • Pastor Kevin Brown
The radically patient and kind love of God frees us from the disfiguring grip of jealousy and envy. Jealousy and envy are everywhere — the constant comparison, excessive competitiveness, passive-aggressive pettiness and celebrating the failures of the popular are the flavor of our day. And jealousy and envy make us all caricatures of ourselves, trapped in a race no one wins. Radical love is the thing that makes us free. It is not jealous. It is not envious.
Rooted in Radical Love: Radical Love is Kind
March 3, 2024 • Pastor Kevin Brown
He who is holy is also long suffering. The God who’s love is patient is also the God who’s love is kind. His kindness is close to the top of the list when it comes to how God expresses His love to us. God’s kindness goes beyond the general, generic run of the mill acts of kindness. His kindness is unique, specific to our need and specific to His ability. Radical love is kind.
Rooted in Radical Love: Radical Love is Patient
February 25, 2024 • Pastor Kevin Brown
Before the love of God is anything; the love of God love is patient. We’ve all received radical patience from the God who is love. When we experience and acknowledge God’s loving patience with us and extend it to others we are changed and we become change agents. But when we receive God’s loving patience and refuse to extend it to others, we become hardened, isolated and imprisoned by our judgements.
Rooted in Radical Love
February 18, 2024 • Pastor Kevin Brown
Jesus never intended for His radical act of love on the cross and His bodily resurrection three days later to end simply with us being born again. That was a part of His divine assignment but not the entire plan. It has always been God’s intent that His people would live drawing daily and continually from His radical love. So many receive eternal life but never learn to live life daily drawing from His radical love. We can not live like or love like God intended until we learn to live lives rooted in the radical love of God.