When asked what it takes to inherit eternal life, Jesus affirmed the answer: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind"; and, "Love your neighbour as yourself." As yourself... For many of us, that third part never truly lands. We carry the weight of past failures, hidden shame, and quiet self-condemnation, and it costs us more than we realise. It's difficult to fully love God and genuinely love others while living under the weight of self-condemnation. The state you're living from is the state you give to others. That's why this series is called The One Person You're Missing... You.
These messages are about learning to love, accept, and forgive yourself with the compassionate love of Jesus.
Part 1: As Yourself
What if the Greatest Commandment is missing something?
“Love God. Love People.” It’s familiar, simple, and central to the Christian life. But when Jesus spoke about what matters most, He included something more, something often overlooked, yet deeply significant. In this message, "As Yourself", we explore the full picture of what Jesus taught in Luke 10:25-28 and why missing this third part can quietly affect our peace, our relationships, and our ability to truly live in the fullness of life He promised. If you’ve ever struggled with shame, regret, or finding it hard to receive God’s love for yourself, this message speaks directly into that space. It unpacks how love, acceptance, and forgiveness aren’t just things we extend to others—but realities we’re invited to receive personally. Take some time to watch, reflect, and share with someone who might need this encouragement.

Part 2: The Hidden Weight
What hidden weights are you carrying? Shame, regret, guilt, disappointment, self-judgement, unresolved pain from the past? In this message, we explore Jesus’ words, “Love your neighbour as yourself,” and the connection between receiving the love of God personally and extending that same love to others. Many of us are trying to climb the mountains God has placed before us while carrying heavy “rafts” from our past — burdens we may not even realise are shaping our inner world and relationships. But the compassionate invitation of Jesus is not condemnation, but shalom: His peace, wholeness, wellbeing, and restoration. The life of Jesus was never only meant to flow through us — it must also be received by us. Take some time to watch, reflect, and prayerfully consider what God may want to heal and restore in your own life.

Part 3: Eagles Don't Have to Die as Chickens
Too many people are living far below who they were created to be, not because of what God thinks about them, but because of what they think about themselves.
In this message we explore how our failures, regrets, wounds and unmet expectations can keep us scratching around in the dirt, when God has made us to soar. If you've ever struggled to forgive yourself, carried the weight of your past, or lost sight of who you really are, this message is for you.

Part 4: A Fathers Story of Loss, Grief & Trust
What do you do when life interrupts everything you planned, and you're left wondering if you did enough? In this deeply personal message, Bruce Hibbard shares the story of losing his son Joshua to a brain tumour, the long road of treatment, the impossible decisions, the grief that followed, and the guilt that lingered long after. And ultimately, what it meant to forgive himself.
This is Part 4 of The One Person You're Missing, a series on the third and often overlooked part of the greatest commandment: love God, love people, as yourself.
Bruce's story is raw, real, and full of hope. Because God is not just in our plans. He's in the interruptions.

Part 5: Loved Like This
We read 1 Corinthians 13 and immediately think about how we should love others. But what if the one person you've been missing in that famous passage, is you? In this message we explore what it looks like when the God who flung coral reefs and cockatoos, red dirt and rainforests into existence turns that same love toward you. Personally. Specifically. Relentlessly. If you've ever struggled to receive God's love for yourself, kept a record of your own wrongs, or felt like you're too far gone, this message is for you.

