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All you need is love - or at least that's what The Beatles tell us. Love can be a vague ideal, and it comes in many forms and is expressed in numerous ways. This is the last Sunday of Advent and of our series on what God can't wait for. It seems only fitting that we save the thing that God can't wait for the most...LOVE. In fact, it's the very reason our church exists...to remind people that God already loves them. But, love isn't just the gushy feeling we get when we encounter someone who is easy for us to care for. Love always requires courage, and when we think of the Christmas story, there are countless moments that required loving courage. This week, we are going to hear how Joseph is a model of the kind of love that God is asking us to share with each other. To love something is to allow it to affect you which is risky and requires courage. In the middle of this divisive time in history (which in some ways mirrors the time of Joseph and Mary), we are going to need the kind of courage that is willing to believe that God is with us - Emmanuel.
By First UMC of Costa MesaAll you need is love - or at least that's what The Beatles tell us. Love can be a vague ideal, and it comes in many forms and is expressed in numerous ways. This is the last Sunday of Advent and of our series on what God can't wait for. It seems only fitting that we save the thing that God can't wait for the most...LOVE. In fact, it's the very reason our church exists...to remind people that God already loves them. But, love isn't just the gushy feeling we get when we encounter someone who is easy for us to care for. Love always requires courage, and when we think of the Christmas story, there are countless moments that required loving courage. This week, we are going to hear how Joseph is a model of the kind of love that God is asking us to share with each other. To love something is to allow it to affect you which is risky and requires courage. In the middle of this divisive time in history (which in some ways mirrors the time of Joseph and Mary), we are going to need the kind of courage that is willing to believe that God is with us - Emmanuel.