Early in Lifewell's founding series on finding your life by laying it down, this message centers on the first and greatest command: loving God with all your heart, soul, and mind. Danny Cox traces it from the Ten Commandments through the Shema—the prayer devout Jews have recited twice daily for millennia—to Jesus naming it the greatest commandment. The angle is grace before duty: how deeply God first loved us, and why loving him is the relationship everything else in the Christian life hinges on.

Preached on Lifewell's opening Sunday, this message frames the church's first day around a deliberately countercultural idea: the life you're looking for is found by laying it down. Danny Cox casts the vision not as an achievement to celebrate but as a people called to spend themselves—rooted in Jesus' words that whoever loses their life for his sake will find it. An invitation, on day one, to measure a life well-lived not by what's gained or built but by what's surrendered, and to step into that calling together.

Week three of Lifewell's founding series on finding your life by laying it down, this message turns to loving others. Danny Cox first presses why the church stakes everything on Jesus—not merely a great teacher but the Son of God who predicted his own death and resurrection and pulled it off, so what he says about how we live carries weight. From there it moves to the call to lay our lives down for one another, and what a community actually shaped by that kind of love looks like.