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Loved at the Worst: Why God’s Love Sets You Free

Senior Pastor Steven Gibbs shares a timely Advent message on love—not the kind we earn by performing, but the kind Jesus brings when He arrives.

Big idea: You’ll never live beyond how you see yourself. The gospel changes that vision.

Highlights

• Our hope for you today: be encouraged, be lovingly challenged, and rediscover the transformational power of the Bible—because Jesus is the answer you’ve been looking for.

• Advent = Arrival: When Jesus arrived, love arrived—recast from conditional & self-serving to unconditional & self-sacrificing.

• The real question isn’t “How loving am I?” but “How lovable am I?” — on your best day, your worst day, and even the “secret you” no one sees.

• God’s verdict about your worth: “While we were weak… ungodly… sinners… enemies… Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:6–8)
  Love’s value shows in the cost of the gift—and you were worth the cross.

• Right on time: Jesus came at just the right moment (kairos)—prophetically, historically, and personally.

• More than a pardon: Through Jesus we are justified—not merely “let off,” but declared righteous and brought into right standing with God (Romans 5:9).

• Freedom looks like this: God’s love silences shame, ends striving, heals comparison, steadies identity, and grows a confident, grateful life.

Take it home

• Stop trying to earn “lovable.” In loving you, God makes you lovable.

• Receive the gift: live from God’s love, not for it—and watch freedom replace insecurity.