This Sunday is Valentine’s Day. Depending on your relationship status and your happiness in a relationship, this day is either a celebration of love or a lament of the lack of it. While the world sings “all you need is love,” most people live without a true understanding of what love is. Our culture has made an idol out of romantic love, and so many of us have participated in the myth of “true love.” Now, romantic love does have some incredible value. For couples that have been married for ten, forty, or sixty-five years, we celebrate with them, and they are a testimony to God’s grace and the gift of that brand of love. However, when Jesus talked about love, he primarily did not talk about romantic love, instead he talked about something much deeper: agape love. C.S. Lewis in talking about agape love said this, “Love in the Christian sense does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.” The Four Loves Love is a choice. It is a decision. And the great news for you and me is that God has decided to love us unconditionally, and God has invited us to love one another in the same way. Join us this Sunday as we talk about the amazing love of God that empowers us to love one another.