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1. God’s Love and Ours

1 John 4:7-21, 1 John 5:1-12

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

... 5–7), laying down our lives for one another (3:16), and being born of God (5:18). In all these passages a direct likeness is drawn between Jesus and the Christian. Because we are like Christ, God’s beloved and obedient Son, we who are also born of God, loved, and obedient, can be confident in the judgment. In this world is mentioned in contrast to the coming era of judgment. If we are like him in this world, then we can be assured that on the day of judgment we will have nothing of which to be afraid. 4 ...

2. If You're Not Loving You're Not Living (Fruit of the Spirit: Love)

Galatians 5:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... every family tree ought to bear. I want you to imagine what your marriage would be like, what your kids would be like, what your spouse would be like, what you would be like, if the tree of your home and your heart bore the fruit of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self -control. Now quite frankly, if a lot of us started bearing that kind of fruit in our lives, it would make us a stranger in our own home! The Bible compares every Christian to a tree. It is ...

3. What Does It Mean To Love?

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

George Johnson

... giving a tithe - 10 percent of all our income to the Lord's work to the poor. It is for others (Malachi 3:8-10). The tithe is not an amount, but a percentage, a step toward equality, toward redistribution. It may be a sacrifice to do that, but to love is a sacrifice. Some of us have adopted a lifestyle that makes tithing very difficult. That is, we have homes, cars, clothes, sports and long range goals that make it difficult to live on the 90 percent. So we may take from the 10 percent that belongs to God ...

4. For the Love of God Is . . .

1 John 5:3-4

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... is all about. Just look at some of the titles of some of our love songs. Love is Kind, Love is Blue, Loving Blind, Love is True, Love Hurts, Love bites, Love Stinks, Love Is Strange, Love Me Tender, Love Potion #9, Love Makes The World Go Round, Love Boat, Love American Style, What The World Needs Now Is Love Sweet Love, Love Letters In The Sand, All You Need Is Love, To Know Him Is To Love Him, Never My Love, and Love Lifted Me. I really didn't mean to get your mind racing like an oldies station. But as ...

5. How to Love God

Matthew 22:34-46

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Stephen M. Crotts

... will power to resist those between meal indulgences, and it takes real effort to exercise regularly. I know myself how important the will can be in loving and serving God. As a pastor I by and large have no day-by-day boss except God. This means I don't really have ... alike. You see, each one of us is peculiar in his blend of emotion, will, and intellect. When we turn our lives to the love of God, each one of us comes out unique. Harry Emerson Fosdick used to say, "If we could get religion like a Methodist, be ...

6. Love: The Happiness of a Godly Family

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... years she was shuffled from one foster home to another. She gave an interview once and a reporter asked her, "Did you ever feel loved by any of the foster families with whom you lived?" Miss Monroe thought about it for a moment, and her eyes clouded up with tears ... said, "Do you have a pair of roller skates?" He said, "Well, just an old pair." She said, "We're going to buy you a lovely new pair of skates." She said, "Tell me son, do you have a transistor radio?" The little boy looked kind of puzzled and said, "I ...

7. Everything You Need to Know about Love

John 15:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... moment I called, ‘Oh Lord, that would be a tragedy for her. Please give me the humped back and let her be beautiful.’” What does love look like? It is like a man taking on a hump on his back so that his beloved can be straight and beautiful. But instead of ... out and he was being sent overseas for a year. The week before he left, the man knelt on his knee and asked his lady love, “Will you marry me?” She wiped a tear, said yes, and they were engaged. They agreed that when he got back in one year, they ...

8. Love Sender

John 3:1-21

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James Merritt

... immediately. Some people think that you have to wait until you die to know whether or not you are going to be with God; that you have to wait until you die to find out whether or not you “get” eternal life. John says when you believe you receive. The love that God has declared to you and has demonstrated for you He immediately delivers to you the moment you believe. Can I go back to the other book that John wrote? Listen to this, “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God ...

9. Loving

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Larry Powell

... woman who marched down a city street brandishing a torch in one hand and carrying a bucket of water in the other. She explained that she wanted to use the water to put out the fires of hell and the torch to burn up heaven. Then, she reasoned, people "could love the dear Lord God for himself alone and not out of the fear of hell or out of craving for reward." Crude sensationalism? Yes, but it does have a bit of merit. To name God's name simply to "escape" hell-fire and brimstone is a placebo devotion (and to ...

10. Living In The Spirit Of Love

Galatians 5:22-25

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... them the best and hope and pray that we have prepared and equipped them for the world. But we need to send them off with the knowledge that no matter what happens in their lives; no matter what mistakes they make; this will always be a place of Unconditional Love. We may not be able to fix or solve any problems they get themselves into. But we will stand by them as they face the consequences of their mistakes and deal with the problems that arise. The mistakes they make may disappoint us but it won't change ...

11. Where Love Comes From

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... and making noises, all at once Andy stopped the ceremony. “Peter,” he said to Hiett, “I have to say something.” Andy turned around with everybody watching. Jarek was still squirming in his seat. Andy said, “Jarek.” The boy froze. “Jarek,” Andy continued, “I love you with all my heart and I will always be your daddy, and you will always be my son.” Then something remarkable happened. Jarek got still. He did not move the rest of the service. (6) Jarek was about to discover what it means ...

12. Family Re:Union - For the Love

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

James Merritt

... A pad (something in which to take notes) Do it all with an iPad! It is very simple. You simply read the Bible and ask God to speak to you and then you take some time in prayer and you speak to Him. It is a time when you just love on God literally. You just praise Him, thank Him, bring Him your burdens, your heartaches, talk to Him about your family, your friends, your finances and you surrender everything you are to everything He is on a daily basis. You know in a marriage you cannot really have a strong ...

13. No Greater Love

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... of plantation slaves who allowed her to listen in as they sat around telling stories. In Heidi's own words: The most important lesson I learned on Johns Island was from Miss Ellie, who lived miles down a small dirt road in a one-room, wooden home. I loved to visit her. We'd sit in old rocking chairs on the front porch, drinking tall glasses of sweet tea, while she'd tell me stories punctuated with Gullah expressions that would leap from her river of thought like bright, silver fish: "Girl, I be so happy I ...

14. Love One Another

1 John 3:11-24

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

... false teachers could not accept that the Christ, the Son of God, was the incarnate human, Jesus (2:22–23; 4:2–3; 2 John 7). Love for one another within the Johannine community has been a prominent theme in 1 John (2:10; 3:10–11, 14, 16–18), and it will ... come to know him” (1 John 2:3); “By this we know that we are in him” (2:5); “By this we have come to know love” (3:16); “By this we shall know that we are of the truth” (3:19); “By this we know that he lives in us” (3:24); “ ...

15. Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... Gong or Acoustic Vase? A Note on 1 Corinthians 13.1,” NTS 32 (1986), pp. 286–89. Furthermore, the mention of the cymbal may be related to the language of Ps. 150:5. 13:3 A minor textual problem makes it uncertain whether Paul says that without love it is no gain to hand over one’s body “in order to boast” or “in order to be burned.” Most interpreters prefer the plain sense of the notion of Paul’s hypothetically surrendering his body to the flames, although the other reading is difficult to ...

16. Learning to Love

Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

James L. Killen

... heavenly father is perfect." If you have ever noticed that verse before, you have probably been wondering what it could possibly mean. But if we put it in the context of the larger reading, it will become plain what it means. It means that we are to learn to love like God loves. It is surprising how easy that is for us to miss. In fact, that is the goal that God hopes to achieve in all of the saving work God does in our lives. It should be the goal of all of the spiritual and moral disciplines we practice ...

17. LOST? Looking For Love

John 3:16-17, 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a, 1 John 4:7-19

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... and how he kept a straight face standing there with me wearing this "As Is" tag. "As Is" No promises, no warranty, no refunds, no support. What you see is what you get and ALL you get, nothing more. "As Is." "As Is" that's how God accepts us and loves us. "As Is" no strings attached. Kind of like the car dealer who, a couple of years ago, had the sale and said they'd give $1,000 trade in on anything, running or not. If it had wheels and you could get it there, they'd give you a ...

18. A Sunday Kind of Love

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Doxology we “Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,” the triune nature of the Godhead isn’t something too many of us consider as part of the daily expression of our faith. But it is. At least it should be. For that’s the kind of faith, hope and love this world is hungering for. Experiencing God as Father, God as Son, and God as Holy Spirit, is what keeps our faith fresh and makes it possible to rebirth Christ into the world every day. A few years ago Reba McEntire brought back a song Jo Stafford and ...

19. Love One Another (or Strike Up The Band)

John 13:31-38

Sermon

Lee Griess

... mold our lives in Jesus' image. In a world all too often filled with people concerned about themselves first, characterized with an impersonal "what's in it for me" attitude, we are called to witness to something more important -- love that gives of itself for others; love that cares about others; love that makes our lives meaningful and significant in giving to others. So take up your instruments and play! Let the band of faithful strike up a tune, for the musical score, the notes, are laid out before us ...

20. The Debt of Love

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... into a stone house, you build a door. On the door you put a lock, and behind your door you begin to accumulate more and more things. Then you have to spend the rest of your life protecting all that you have acquired.” (5) There are lessons about love for one’s neighbor that we can learn from people in so-called undeveloped countries. There are lessons we can learn from those who have the least in our own land. Many years ago, PARADE Magazine carried the story of a nun who ministered to the prisoners at ...

21. The Measure of Love

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... is the only way." In the movie about the life of Mahatma Gandhi, when he lies almost dead from a hunger strike to stop the killings among the Muslims and Hindus, he shares, "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and LOVE has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they can seem invincible--but in the end they always fall. ALWAYS!" The famous English writer, Chesterton, once wrote, "It is not that Christianity has not been tried and found boring. It is ...

22. Love - The Basic Christian Call

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... to wait for anything these days, in our world and in our personal lives, both of which mandate instant answers and results. We are all impatient, especially when we have no control over responses or results. Paul suggests if we truly love we will demonstrate patience. Next, he says love is kind. Often impatience leads to a very unkind attitude; we become angry quite readily. The way we approach people and situations is too often far less than kind. We are adversarial; we are right and others are wrong. We ...

23. Called to Love, Not Like

John 15:9-17

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Robert Noblett

... a step further. Christian men and women are not called to like everyone. The old camp song is titled "They Will Know We Are Christians By Our Love," and not, "They Will Know We Are Christians By Our Likes and Dislikes." If there are folks to whom you do not warm, know please that you ... I gain Jan and Jim's confidence so they will take down the wall or emerge fully around the corner? Christian love, as Paul so beautifully reminds us, is also patient. Waiting for the Jans and Jims to take down walls and turn ...

24. A Love For All Seasons (ii) (communion Meditation)

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... I've just been saying that it is certainly weighed on the side of hope. Still the question remains, how many times do we take the Prodigal back? I also said that we would talk today about balancing the weight of the Gospel against the notion of tough love. We discussed that question last week in the context of drug dependency. And, nowhere is the question a more relevant one, because it's the most common issue with which we have to deal in terms of prodigal living, and taking the prodigal back home. So we ...

25. When Love Runs Out of Breath

Matthew 22:34-40

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Barbara Brokhoff

... and got all inspired - we are going to be different. We read the Bible a little more, we pray a couple more minutes each day, and go on a binge of "being a better Christian." And we make a high resolve for ourselves: We are going to love - really love - love all the time - and love everybody! And we do pretty well, until, one day we wake up with a bad headache, or a fresh cold, or we over-sleep and are late for work, or the children are difficult, or the milk for cereal is sour, or the car won’t start ...

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