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

Loving people is hard! Even on our best days, loving those closest to us can be tough. But the stories Adam tells in Love Has a Name show us that love isnt as complicated as we sometimes make it. Because love has a name, and that name isnt 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!

M ARK B ATTERSON , 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 its painful, tough, and draining. Adams writing rejuvenates my soul. This book truly ministered to my heartmy longing not just to love Jesus but to love like him. Grab this book!

R ASHAWN C OPELAND , founder of Im 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. Ive watched Adam love people wellhes the right guy to lead this conversation. Adam points us to the one who knows love like no other: Jesus.

T YLER R EAGIN , author of The Life-Giving Leader and founder of the Life-Giving Company

If you find your heart growing callous or if the gospel has become just a series of ideas or propositions, this book will be a tremendous challenge and help. Adam captures the love story of Jesuss life played out in modern-day relationships, and its beautiful. Thank you for this, Adam. My own heart softened. It needed to.

C AREY N IEUWHOF , podcaster, speaker, and bestselling author

My friend Adam Weber is a true catalyst! Love Has a Name is a practical book filled with everyday stories about loving others like Jesus dida mission and purpose all of us should be pursuing.

B RAD L OMENICK , founder of BLINC and author of H3 Leadership and The Catalyst Leader

This book is special. My friend Adam Weber has an amazing way of bringing out deep insights in ways that anyone can understand. This book is full of storiesnormal stories about normal people like you and me. Each story embodies a unique aspect of love. And each drives us deeper into the sacred embrace of Jesus. You are going to be so blessed!

D ANIEL F USCO , pastor, television and radio host, and author of Crazy Happy;Upward, Inward, Outward; and Honestly

This book is beautifully personal and powerfully universal. With winsome insight and deep compassion, Adam reveals a God who sees and knows usyet still unstoppably loves us.

K ATHERINE AND J AY W OLF , survivors, advocates, and authors of Suffer Strong and Hope Heals

In a time of so much outrage, partisan bickering, and canceling people who dont fit our sensibilities, a strong refresher course on love is sorely needed. I cant think of many people more qualified to offer this than my friend Pastor Adam Weber. Every time I encounter Adam, it makes me want to go out and love someone. I trust that will be his impact on you as well.

S COTT S AULS , senior pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church and author of Jesus Outside the Lines and A Gentle Answer

Love Has a Name is a love letter to things that are good and true. This is a bright and insightful invitation to see others and ourselves anew, naming whats really been there all alonglove.

B RAD M ONTAGUE , New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of Becoming Better Grownups

Our world is fraught with division, anger, and scorn. We can easily connect through technology yet seem to be drifting apart. In such a scenario, nothing can cut through, redeem, and restore like the love of God. Adam Weber guides us with warmth and humility toward Christ, the source of all love. Read and be inspired to be a vessel of this love in the world.

M ARK S AYERS , senior leader of Red Church and author of Reappearing Church and Strange Days

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.

C ARLOS W HITTAKER , author of Enter Wild, speaker, and storyteller

Jesus was a master at seeing people. It is, in a nutshell, why so many people felt instantly loved by him. Yet in our social mediasaturated world, where we engage more with profile pictures than in-person human beings, we are rapidly losing this practice. In these pages Adam models Jesuss ordinary yet world-altering method of love. We need it now more than ever.

S HARON H ODDE M ILLER , author of Nice

Scripture tells us that God is love. Jesus incarnated that love, then called his followers to do the same. Love Has a Name helps us see what love looks like. This is an inspiring book that will encourage and challenge you.

A DAM H AMILTON , author of The Walk

Far from theoretical frameworks and philosophical constructs, Love Has a Name gets as down to earth as Jesus himself. This book carries something special for our time. And it comes from a voice who knows the subject because he has lived it.

J . D . W ALT , sower-in-chief at Seedbed

Loving people well doesnt seem like it can change the world. Until it does. In Love Has a Name, Adam shows us how to do just that. Heres a book filled with everyday stories of loving others like Jesus did, one note of encouragement, neighborhood trash pickup, and bouquet of flowers at a time.

M IKE F OSTER , bestselling author, speaker, and executive counselor

Everyone needs a friend like Adam. Hes encouraging, kind, selfless, joyful, humble, and patient. As you turn the pages of this book, hell become your friend and show you how to be a friend to others. This book will help you love other people the way Jesus loves you.

J ON W EECE , lead follower at Southland Christian Church

Countless books have been written on the subject of love, with authors often resorting to overused slogans and outdated illustrations. Adam Webers book Love Has a Name offers a fresh approach to a timeless topic. This book will inspire and stretch you to be more like Jesus.

H AL D ONALDSON , president of Convoy of Hope

In Love Has a Name, Adam Weber shares gritty real-life lessons about loving others and being loved in return. This love isnt a clichd three-step recipe to loving better but rather a bold challenge to truly embrace others and show Gods love. Through every story Adam continually points us back to Jesusour ultimate example of true and unconditional love.

J EREMY D E W EERDT , senior pastor of City First Church

Adam Weber cares for people deeply. Theres almost nothing more important in life than learning how to love people well. Theres almost no one better to learn from than my friend Adam, because he loves so well.

M ATT B ROWN , evangelist, author of Truth Plus Love, and founder of Think Eternity

Empathy begins when we choose to sit across the table from someone who sees the world differently than we do. I wish every person on social media would read this book before making another comment on someone elses post.

C HRIS B ROWN , speaker, author, and radio and podcast host

Adam Weber writes with beautiful simplicity that cuts straight to the heart in ways we didnt know we needed. How did the pendulum swing from the tender love of childhood to the cynical callousness of aging? How do we return? We arent lost, Adam reminds us. Love has a nameJesus. Life-changing.