Genuine Christian love is not sentimental. It is shaped by the gospel and should permeate every interaction of the believer. In the second half of Romans 12, Paul calls believers to “Let love be genuine.” Listen to see how followers of Jesus Christ should live out genuine love humbly in community and practice it faithfully in the face of hostility. Genuine love rejects evil, pursues good, and overcomes evil not through retaliation, but through Christlike goodness.

What does it look like to live a life fully offered to God? In Romans 12, Paul calls believers to respond to the mercies of God with a life of stewardship—not just of our possessions, but of our entire lives. True worship is not confined to a moment or a place, but rather, expressed through lives presented to God as living sacrifices. Paul urges believers to look to the future with renewed minds, no longer shaped by the world but transformed by His Word. May God use our faithful contributions to accomplish His purposes in the world through us!

Christmas is God’s decisive action in history to reconcile us to himself through Jesus. Listen this Christmas season as we learn from Galatians about God's rescue mission that gives us a new relationship with Him: Immanuel, God with us.