{"id":13729,"date":"2025-11-09T16:33:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T21:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/?post_type=message&#038;p=13729"},"modified":"2025-11-13T16:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:39:16","slug":"a-greater-love","status":"publish","type":"message","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/message\/a-greater-love","title":{"rendered":"A Greater Love"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a world where love often grows cold\u2014where relationships are strained, marriages are fractured, and people are lonely even when surrounded by others. What\u2019s worse, our world has lost sight of what true love really is.<\/p>\n<p>It is not merely an emotion, but an act of the will. It involves commitment, sacrifice, and steadfast devotion.<\/p>\n<p>Yet we can\u2019t manufacture this kind of love on our own. We need a greater love\u2014Christ\u2019s love\u2014filling our hearts and flowing through us in every relationship. That\u2019s exactly the kind of love the writer of Hebrews calls us to. In the book of Hebrews 13:1-6, the author, concluding his appeal for believers to live as grateful worshipers in God\u2019s unshakeable kingdom, exhorted believers to demonstrate Christ\u2019s greater love in all their relationships. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13730,"template":"","tags":[2019],"series":[2938],"scripture-book":[1325],"scripture-chapter":[1346],"speaker":[2007],"class_list":["post-13729","message","type-message","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-exposition","series-jesus-is-greater-an-exposition-of-hebrews","scripture-book-hebrews","scripture-chapter-1346","speaker-gary-combs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/13729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/message"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/13729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13731,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/13729\/revisions\/13731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13729"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=13729"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=13729"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=13729"},{"taxonomy":"speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker?post=13729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}