Love Sunday
This Sunday, we will have a special musical Sunday with our music team and choir performing popular love songs to sing along. Rev. Jean-Marie will tie his message about the original Blessing (rather than sin) to our ability to Love beyond measure. Together, we will remember that we all deserve to be loved while we have so much love to give.
Join us for a meaningful service with lots of heart-felt music after which we will break bread together at our monthly potluck and inaugural volunteer fair. As a special treat, participate in the burning ritual of last year's palm leaves from Palm Sunday to prepare the ashes for this year's Ash Wednesday.
Listen & Watch
Sermon Notes
Main Scripture
“Then the Lord God said, ‘See, the humans have become like one of us, knowing good and evil, and now they might reach out their hands and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever’—therefore the Lord God sent them forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which they were taken. He drove out the humans, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a sword flaming and turning to guard the way to the tree of life.” —Genesis 3:22–24
Supporting Scriptures
“Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.” —Genesis 3:7
“And the Lord God made garments of skins for the man and for his wife and clothed them.” —Genesis 3:21
"Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” —1 Corinthians 13:4–7
Quotes
“In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.” —Rumi
“Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.” —The Lord Buddha (Jack Kornfield, “Buddha’s Little Instruction Book”)
Metaphysical Interpretations
*Revealing Word
**Metaphysical Bible Dictionary
love, Divine*—Divine love is impersonal; it loves for the sake of loving. It is not concerned with what or who it loves, nor with a return of love. Like the sun, its joy is in the shining forth of its nature. "Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up" (I Cor. 13:4).
