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Sun Prairie UMC Podcast Channel
Our podcast channel is a great place to connect for spiritual growth and worship. In addition to our weekly sermons being posted, we offer a Monday devotional Word of the Week and a Friday podcast.
Recent Episode
All you Need is Love
December 23, 2025
Preaching from Luke 6:27–36, Pastor Brad reflects on Jesus’ radical call to love—not just friends or those who love us in return, but enemies as well. He opens with the Beatles’ famous song All You Need Is Love, noting how the phrase can sound like a cliché, yet is profoundly biblical. Drawing on another preacher’s “ABCs of love,” he contrasts self-interested love (A and B) with the deeper, sacrificial love (C) that expects nothing in return, and finally with the most challenging form—enemy love (D): loving even those who hurt or betray us. Jesus’ teaching reveals that God’s love is compassionate, selfless, and extended even to the ungrateful and wicked. Pastor Brad reminds us that this kind of love doesn’t come naturally to us—and that’s precisely why God sent Christ: to show us what love truly looks like and to teach us how to live it. The message is clear and countercultural: real Christian love is radical, revolutionary, and rooted in God’s own compassion.
Reflection question:
Which “level” of love—self-interest, mutual exchange, selfless giving, or loving an enemy—feels most challenging for you right now, and what might Jesus be inviting you to practice this week?
