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Do you love Jesus with your head or your heart?

What does it look like to passionately love Jesus?

Who is that Jesus we thought we knew?

How can I live as a reflection of God’s love?

These and other questions will be answered this weekend in Escondido, California, at the North County Church of Christ. I will be speaking at the Ladies Retreat in English and Spanish, starting tonight.

Please keep me and these ladies in your prayers as we explore what it means to be Falling in Love with Jesus.

• Jesus

Matthew wrote to the Jews about Jesus, Messiah—the fulfillment of the prophecies and the one who established the kingdom.

Mark gave an action-packed account of how the people were amazed at all Jesus did.

Luke chose a more Gentile audience who was not familiar with the Jewish traditions and longed to hear other details of his time on earth highlighted.

John focused more on who Jesus is and all he represents as the great I AM, the Word that became flesh and dwelt among us.

Each of the four gospels provides unique insight into Jesus and his time on this earth. At different times in my life, one or another of those perspectives have spoken to me more than another.

A small group Bible study member recently compared the gospels to four different puzzles. They each display a different picture and if you try to fit the pieces of one puzzle into the frame of another, it doesn’t work.

John presents a more thematic than chronological approach, for example. And since Luke is speaking to the Gentiles and Matthew to the Jews, their views on different events are seen from distinct directions.

What a blessing that we have these four accounts of our Savior’s time on earth! The story of Christ would be incomplete if we didn’t have these four perspectives.

I have committed to reading all four gospels this month in honor of this month’s theme. Which of the four gospels will you read with us this month?