S1: God's Desire (The Gift of Thorns)
The Gift of Thorns (A. J. Swoboda)
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26m
Remarkable as it may sound, even if we didn’t exist, God would still be love. In the first session, we explore this mystery at length and consider that everything in the entire world and creation is an overflow of this God of love.
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