The BEMA Podcast 494: Vice & Virtue — Love
Jan 29, 2026
A reflective conversation exploring 1 Corinthians 13 and what it means to be fully known and fully loved. They examine Frederick Buechner’s three stages of love and a striking wound-care metaphor for love entering messy places. Scriptural passages from Isaiah and reflections on Jesus’ costly, inclusive love are woven through the discussion.
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Let Love Be Seen, Not Dissected
- 1 Corinthians 13 presents love as a reality that transcends full explanation and analysis.
- Brent Billings urges letting the passage be experienced rather than dissected into technical parts.
Three Personal Moments Of Love
- Reed Dent recounts three formative experiences of love from childhood, romance, and parenthood.
- He frames them as the love we take, the love we share, and the love we give.
Three Manifestations, One Reality
- Frederick Buechner and Brent Billings argue those three manifestations are one reality, not separate loves.
- Losing yourself in others or suffering for others is the essence of love's unity.
