Advent: Love

This final message in the Advent series focuses on Love not as sentiment, emotion, or religious performance, but as the defining reality of God and the foundation of a transformed life. The sermon invites us to examine the gap between what we know about God’s love and how deeply we actually live from it. Jesus reveals that love is not disembodied or abstract; it is meant to permeate our hearts, minds, bodies, relationships, and even how we treat ourselves. Advent love declares that we are not just forgiven we are deeply loved, and that love becomes the source from which we love God, others, and ourselves.