Love Has a Name: Learning to Love the Different, the Difficult, and Everyone Else

Discover the joy of stepping out and intentionally loving the people around you. ?Love has a name, and that name isn?t Mark or Adam or even yours! That name is Jesus, and when we make love about him, everything else falls into place. Struggling to love? Pick up this book!?-Mark Batterson, New York Times bestselling author of The Circle Maker and lead pastor of National Community Church Who does Jesus love? The stranger who looks strange. The driver who cuts us off in traffic. The person online who thinks differently than we do. Loving people is hard. Especially when it involves the difficult people in our lives and those different from us. We say we love others, but really we don?t. Instead of loving, we hurt, belittle, and overlook people. Which is precisely why we need to learn how to love-from Jesus and from one another.Adam Weber knows firsthand how important it is to learn to love. And he?s learned incredible lessons from incredible people-some of them quite unexpected. With hope, humor, stretched comfort zones, biblical truth, and (maybe) a few tears,Love Has a Name looks at the most powerful of these stories, showing us twenty-seven people (and one school) who have taught Adam how to love like Jesus.One name at a time. Review ?Loving people is hard! Even on our best days, loving those closest to us can be tough. But the stories Adam tells inLove Has a Name show us that love isn?t as complicated as we sometimes make it. Because love has a name, and that name isn?t Mark or Adam or even yours! That name is Jesus, and when we make love about him, everything else falls into place. Struggling to love? Pick up this book!?-Mark Batterson, New York Times bestselling author of The Circle Maker and lead pastor of National Community Church ?In Love Has a Name, Adam Weber shows us how to love people even when it?s painful, tough, and draining. Adam?s writing rejuvenates my soul. This book truly ministered to my heart-my longing not just to love Jesus but to love like him. Grab this book!?-Rashawn Copeland, founder of I?m So Blessed Daily and author of Start Where You Are ?Some of the most powerful moments in our lives are when someone calls us by name. It literally makes our brains fire faster. We feel special. My friend Adam Weber has wrestled this to the ground in Love Has a Name. I?ve watched Adam love people well-he?s the right guy to lead this conversation. Adam points us to the one who knows love like no other:Jesus.?-Tyler Reagin, author of The Life-Giving Leader and founder of the Life-Giving Company ?This book is beautifully personal and powerfully universal. With winsome insight and deep compassion, Adam reveals a God who sees and knows us-yet still unstoppably loves us.?-Katherine and Jay Wolf, survivors, advocates, and authors of Suffer Strong and Hope Heals ?In Love Has a Name, Adam Weber destroys the myth that we love based on how we feel. By redefining the way love is demonstrated and acted upon, Adam has given us a field guide for daily love that we will come back to again and again.?-Carlos Whittaker, author of Enter Wild, speaker, and storyteller About the Author Adam Weber is the founder and lead pastor of Embrace, a multisite church based out of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Author ofTalking with God, he also hosts a podcast calledThe Conversation. Adam likes sitting on his front porch, singing in his car at the top of his lungs, and meeting strangers (the stranger the better). He still cheers for the Cincinnati Bengals but no longer drives a Rambler. He?s married to his (patient) wife, Becky, and has four kids, Hudson, Wilson, Grayson, and Anderson. He also has seven chickens, two dogs, and three fish, but what he really wants is a sheep. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. 1JesusLove knows you by name.A few years back, I went to pick up my daughter from a birthday party. She was at one of those