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BeLove - Nova, 9010 Lorton Station Boulevard, Lorton, VA (2026)

08/21/2026

✨ JOIN US TOMORROW! ✨

Come just as you are. ❤️

We’re a place for the broken, the hurting, and those carrying burdens. A safe space to vent, cry, and lay down your sorrows without judgment. Here, you’ll find love, grace, prayer, and people who will walk alongside you. 🤍🙏

🌿 Continuing our BeWell Series
Let’s continue our 30-day Wellness Journey as we grow stronger in faith—together. 💚

🎙️ Speaker: Joanne Cortés

🗓️ Saturday
📖 God Discovery • 2:00 PM
☕🥗 Coffee & Healthy Options • 2:30 PM
🎶 Worship Experience • 3:30 PM

📍 9010 Lorton Station Blvd., Suite T100
Lorton, VA 22079

🙌 Let’s worship, fellowship, pray for one another, and experience God’s presence together!

08/21/2026

Breaking Down Barriers

Confronting Prejudice

In the parable, the priest and the Levite, the most religiously respected people in Jewish society, both passed by the wounded man. They saw him. And they walked on the other side.

Jesus Christ is making a sobering point: religious activity without compassion is empty. It is possible to serve at the altar and still have a cold heart. It is possible to know the law of God and still fail to live it. People of faith are not immune to indifference.

But Jesus Christ came to break down cultural barriers. He calls us to examine our hearts honestly, to ask whether prejudice, assumptions, or self-protection is keeping us from reaching out. Are there people you are overlooking because they are different? A different economic background? A different tribe? A different faith?

God calls His people to a radically different standard: The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself (Leviticus 19:34).

When diversity arrives at our doorstep, it is not a threat.

It is an opportunity to demonstrate the love of Christ.

Reflect:

1. What biases or assumptions might be causing you to pass by on the other side?

2. How can you move from curiosity instead of condemnation toward someone very different from you?

Respond:

Consider inviting someone who does not look or talk like you for a cup of tea this week.

08/20/2026

Everyone Matters to God

Dignity and Diversity

Jesus made a deliberate choice in his parable: the hero is a Samaritan. In first-century culture, Jews and Samaritans shared a deep mutual hatred rooted in ethnic and religious differences. The Samaritan was the last person the Jewish audience expected to be the example of love.

Yet Jesus holds this despised man up as the picture of God’s love in action. The message is unmistakable: every person, regardless of race, gender, tribe, religion, economic status, or background, is made in the image of God and deserves to be treated with dignity.

All people are within reach of God’s redemptive power. The blood of Jesus was shed for all at the cross, and He wants us as His body to ensure that no one is left behind. Prejudice has no place where the love of God dwells.

Today, pause and ask: Is there someone in my community I have written off because they are too different? Jesus is calling us to see them the way He does, as beloved and worthy.

Reflect:

Who in your community do you tend to avoid or overlook, and why?
How does knowing that all people are made in God’s image change the way you see them?

Respond:

Ask God to give you His heart and burden for one specific person today.

08/19/2026

Who Is My Neighbor?

Asking the Right Question

A lawyer once stood up to test Jesus with what seemed like a simple question: What must I do to inherit eternal life? But it was the follow-up question that changed everything: And who is my neighbor?

We often ask this question with an agenda, just as the lawyer did, hoping to limit who we are responsible for. Jesus, as the master Teacher and Coach, did not answer the question directly. Instead, he told a story that would shatter the questioner’s assumptions entirely.

Before we can love our neighbors well, we must be willing to sit with this honest, uncomfortable question. We must examine our hearts: Have we drawn invisible circles around who counts as our neighbor? Have we used religion, culture, tribe, or class to decide who deserves our attention?

Jesus asks not who is my neighbor but rather: Am I being a neighbor?

Reflect:

1. Who have you unconsciously excluded from your circle of neighborly love?

2. What assumptions do you carry about who is “your kind” of people?

Respond:

Spend a moment in prayer asking God to open your eyes to your neighbors.

08/18/2026

Love Lets Grace Have the Final Word

Peter does not say that love covers only a few small mistakes.

He says:

“Love covers over a multitude of sins.” (1 Peter 4:8 - NIV)

This sentence is powerful because human relationships are rarely simple. We hurt and are hurt. We disappoint and are disappointed. We need grace, and others need it too.

Colossians 3 invites us to clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.

Then Paul adds:

“And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.” (Colossians 3:14 - NIV)

Love is what holds together what wounds would try to separate.

Again, this does not mean hiding evil or avoiding every difficult conversation. But it means that when God works in a heart, grace can become stronger than pride, resentment, and accusation.

We love because God first loved us.

Today, I encourage you to carry this question with you: “In this relationship, how can grace have the final word?”

Prayer:

Lord, thank You because You first loved me.
May Your love transform the way I see, speak, and forgive. Help me let Your grace have the final word in my relationships.

08/17/2026

Love With Perseverance

Some relationships require patience.

Sometimes we need to encourage again. Explain again. Forgive again. Choose gentleness again. And our hearts can grow tired.

Maybe that is why Peter speaks of deep love. A living love. A love that does not settle for the minimum.

Galatians 6:9 says:

“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” (Galatians 6:9 - NIV)

Persevering in love does not mean carrying everything alone or exhausting yourself without discernment. Jesus Himself knew when to withdraw, pray, remain silent, speak, correct, and continue loving.

But there are moments when God calls us not to let weariness make the decision for us.

Paul writes:

“We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.” (Romans 15:1 - NIV)

To love with perseverance is to accept that others are still on a journey, just as we are.

Today, ask God to renew your love where it has grown cold. Not by your strength alone, but by His Spirit.

Prayer:

Lord, renew in me a persevering love.
When I grow tired, remind me of Your patience toward me.
Help me love with discernment, gentleness, and faithfulness.

08/16/2026

Forgiving Does Not Mean Excusing Everything

Forgiveness is sometimes misunderstood.

We may think it means forgetting immediately, minimizing what happened, pretending the wound does not exist, or allowing someone to keep doing harm.

But biblical forgiveness is not a denial of truth.

Jesus says:

“If your brother or sister sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them.” (Luke 17:3 - NIV)

Here we see both truth and grace.

The love that covers over a multitude of sins does not close its eyes to what destroys. It does not protect against abuse, manipulation, or injustice. In some situations, love means setting boundaries, seeking help, speaking with wisdom, or protecting yourself.

But even when boundaries are necessary, God can free us from the desire for revenge.

Paul writes:

“If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.” (Romans 12:18 - NIV)

That phrase matters: as far as it depends on you. You are not responsible for controlling everything. You are called to keep your heart before God.

To forgive is to place the debt into the hands of the Lord. It is refusing to let the wound become your master.

Prayer:

Lord, give me the wisdom to forgive without denying the truth.
Help me set the right boundaries when they are needed.
Free my heart from revenge and keep me in Your peace.

08/15/2026

Love Does Not Keep Everything as an Accusation

When someone hurts us, our memory can become a courtroom.

We replay the words. We rebuild the scene. We prepare our arguments. We keep the offense as evidence against the other person.

But the love of God calls us to something different.

Paul writes:

“Love is patient, love is kind.” (1 Corinthians 13:4 - NIV)

Then he adds:

“It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” (1 Corinthians 13:7 - NIV)

This does not mean love becomes blind or calls evil good. It means love refuses to reduce a person to their failure.

Proverbs 10:12 says:

“Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.” (Proverbs 10:12 - NIV)

To cover, in this sense, does not mean hiding serious injustice or protecting sin. It means refusing to expose unnecessarily, humiliate, feed bitterness, or use another person’s mistakes as weapons.

God has loved us this way. He does not treat us according to everything He could hold against us.

Today, I encourage you to ask God for a heart that can say: “I do not want to live in accusation.”

Prayer

Lord, deliver me from bitterness and accusation.
Teach me to look at others with grace, without denying the truth.
May my heart not keep wounds as weapons.

08/14/2026

✨ JOIN US TOMORROW! ✨

Come just as you are. ❤️

We’re a place for the broken, the hurting, and those carrying burdens. A safe space to vent, cry, and lay down your sorrows without judgment. Here, you’ll find love, grace, prayer, and people who will walk alongside you. 🤍🙏

🌿 Continuing our BeWell Series
Let’s continue our 30-day Wellness Journey as we grow stronger in faith—together. 💚

🎙️ Speaker: Joanne Cortés

🗓️ Saturday
📖 God Discovery • 2:00 PM
☕🥗 Coffee & Healthy Options • 2:30 PM
🎶 Worship Experience • 3:30 PM

📍 9010 Lorton Station Blvd., Suite T100
Lorton, VA 22079

🙌 Let’s worship, fellowship, pray for one another, and experience God’s presence together!

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08/14/2026

Above All, Love

Peter writes to believers who are facing pressure, tension, and trials. In that context, he gives them a clear priority.

He says:

“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.” (1 Peter 4:8 - NIV)

Two words matter deeply: above all.

Before quick reactions. Before final judgments. Before words that wound. Before the need to be right.

Peter calls believers to love deeply. This is not a cold, occasional, or convenient love. It is a love that stretches, perseveres, and chooses faithfulness when relationships become complicated.

Jesus Himself says:

“Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” (John 13:34 - NIV)

Christian love is not only an emotion. It is a decision rooted in the way Jesus first loved us.

Today, ask yourself: in which relationship is God calling me to put love back in first place?

Not a naive love. Not a love that denies truth. But a love that refuses to become hard.

Prayer

Lord Jesus, teach me to love as You have loved me.
When my heart begins to close, bring me back to Your grace. Help me put love first in my relationships.

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