What can I do outside of Sundays to promote what I believe in the way that I live,

in the way that I love, in the way that I try to care for people? There's a scripture that says,

those who thirst after righteousness will be filled. Well, that word righteousness is interchangeable

for justice. Those who thirst for justice shall be filled. We're all thirsting for justice and a

lot of different ways about a lot of different issues in the world right now.

Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. The idea of loving others doesn't seem too difficult when

we put it in the context of those closest to us, the ones who support us, care for us, and who

give love in return. But the love that God commands us to have as Christians goes beyond that love we

have in small circles. And it demands that as Jesus first loved us, we must love others in return.

In the Bible, we'll find in 1 John 4, 20, 21, it says, whoever claims to love God yet

hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister,

whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. And he has given us this command.

Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister. Our guests this week have committed

their lives to showing the world that there isn't anyone who isn't worthy of love.

Both God's love and the love of their fellow man. We're talking to singer, speaker, and social

advocate, C.C. Jones Davis and digital artist Danielle Koch. Let's begin this week with C.C.

story. I am C.C. Jones Davis. I am ordain minister, a speaker, singer, activist,

and I do my best to allow the stories of other people to live inside my life in a way

that causes me to hopefully love my neighbor a little bit better by engaging and helping and caring

as much as I can about others. So I'm from a very small town on Halifax County, Virginia.

I was raised by my mom and dad, who was a school teacher, and my dad was a landscaper.

I was also really influenced by my grandparents growing up. My mother's mother, Leola,

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