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26. Your Home Page

Hebrews 13:1-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... rests firmly on a single foundation — Jesus Christ, who is “the same yesterday and today and forever” (v.8). First on this author’s list is a call for the continuation of “mutual” or “brotherly” love. “Philadelphia” describes the kind of “brotherly love” that is exhibited towards one’s blood relations, the love that binds kinfolk together. This Hebrews’ author had already mentioned such “Philadelphia” being exhibited by this community of faith (6:10; 10:24). All Christians ...

27. God Needs To Save This Family

Hosea 1:1-2:1

Sermon

James McLemore

... back up. Jezreel, the seed sower, will become Israel, the nation grower, for I will make him into a nation under God. Lo-ruhamah, the unmerciful, will become Ruhamah, full of mercy and grace. And I will make sisters love their brothers, and I will make brothers love their sisters. And Lo-ammi, who was named 'not my people,' will receive a new name. He will be called 'the children of the Living God.' And folks will say about your family, 'This is God's family,' and they will say about your children, 'These ...

28. Message to Philadelphia

Revelation 3:7-13

Teach the Text

J. Scott Duvall

... from the loyalty between the two brothers who were influential in founding the city: Eumenes II and his younger brother, Attalus II. The younger brother resisted pressure from Rome to turn against his older sibling, earning him the nickname “Philadelphus” (“brotherly love”). Like Sardis, Philadelphia was subject to earthquakes, and in AD 17 the city was devastated by the major quake that hit the region. Because of lingering aftershocks, many of the residents lived outside the city for a time and ...

29. A Service Of Light

John 1:1-18

Bulletin Aid

J. B. Quisenberry

... ! Hymn "Hail To The Lord's Anointed" Advent Candle Lighting Call To Prayer L: The Lord be with you. P: And also with you. L: Let us pray. Prayer Of Confession (Unison) Gracious God, you would have all of your children embrace each other in brotherly love, but all too often we let worldly differences like race, language, and culture come between us. Forgive our lack of understanding and our fears. Help us to see beyond temporal concerns. Open our eyes and our hearts to your limitless love so that it might ...

30. On Level Ground

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and had settled in down on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and was working as a fire inspector for Ingles Ship Building Corporation. I had moved back from California to Nashville and so we were able to see each other rather often and cultivate our brother- love. Lloyd was always a tenderhearted person -- always concerned about others. He was a little man, and on the surface had the appearance of being cocky and a bit arrogant. But, inside, he was really insecure. In fact, he had some feelings of inferiority ...

31. On Level Ground

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

32. Hebrews 13: 1-8; 15-16

Hebrews 13:1-25

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

33. Anne Sullivan

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Carroll Gunkel

... to be more specific. The word "eros" means sensual, physical love. "Eros" is loving because one’s passionate nature compels us to love. Erotic love may be love which is uncontrollable. The physical nature has become dominant over the spiritual nature. "Philos" means brotherly love or familial love. This suggests that we love one another because the bonds of family compel us to do so. It is almost as though we are saying that we "love" because we have to. But the Greek language has given us yet another ...

34. God's Passion

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

... shoulders more descriptions than any other phenomenon of life. You see, the early church was in love. Let me explain. The language of the Bible has many words for love. Three are most common: 1. philos, which means friendship or brotherly love. From it we get Philadelphia, city of brotherly love, and philosophy, love of wisdom. 2. eros, romantic love, alias puppy love, "true love," and head-over-heels love. 3. agape, divine love, the gentle love of a parent for a child. In the Bible, divine love, agape love ...

35. Loving Deeply (Mother's Day)

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

Sermon

King Duncan

... this is Mother’s Day, I want to draw your attention to our lesson from the Epistle, particularly the twenty-second verse, where we read these words, “Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart.” What a perfect text for a day when we honor our Moms. “Love one another deeply, from the heart.” Note that these words are directed at the community of faith. They are not being written for the secular ...

36. Epiphany 8

1 Corinthians 4:1-21, Matthew 5:43-48, Matthew 5:38-42, Leviticus 19:1-37

Bulletin Aid

... attitude in society prove we are children of God. Collect Gracious Father, whose nature to love is a basic requirement for those who would be your children: Empty our hearts of bitterness, jealousy, and vengeance; that we may give to society the example of brotherly love. In our Savior's name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession We need people to be our neighbors, Father. But we are guilty of many unneighborly acts of injustice; and we carelessly violate their right to depend on us as neighbors. Forgive us ...

37. Salvation as Personal Experience

Romans 9:30--10:21

Sermon Aid

T. A. Kantonen

... is not mysticism in the ordinary sense of something solitary, mysterious, ecstatic, or otherworldly. It is "in Christ" or "in the Lord" that Christians not only trust, hope and rejoice but also tell the truth, work, stand firm, agree with one another, have brotherly love, welcome travelers, send greetings, get married, and finally, die. Whatever they do and whatever happens to them bears the stamp of "in Christ," for their whole life at all levels is determined by Christ. Holy Spirit To be "in Christ" is ...

38. We've Been Bragging About You!

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... and saw a beautiful sight. Stan and Ollie were having a spirited conversation without uttering a word. Both men were masters at pantomime from their early years in silent films. This skill was never put to better use. It also illustrates the deep brotherly love between the partners. Stan had determined that he would not underscore Ollie's inability to speak by talking to him. And Ollie, I'm certain, was grateful to Stan, who thus helped Ollie to maintain his dignity. (5) What a beautiful analogy of what ...

39. Epiphany 7

Genesis 45:1-28, Psalm 37:1-40, Luke 6:27-38, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... the words we say and the hymns we sing but in the silences we keep. In speaking and in listening may we be open to hear your Word and ready to respond with respectful obedience like Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PRAYER OF CONFESSION Compassionate Parent, understanding Brother, loving and forgiving Spirit, you know how weak we are and how prone to retaliate when treated spitefully. We would rather return a curse with a curse and a blow with a blow. We refuse many who ask us for what we think we do not owe. We ...

40. A Song, A Star, A Savior

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... same chaplain stopped at the island en route to a Far East assignment. He was greeted with excitement and taken to see the beautiful Church which the natives had built. Over the doorway was crudely lettered, "This is our Church, built on faith and brotherly love." The chaplain stayed for a service of worship in the church. There were no seats; the songs were all Christmas carols because those were the only ones they knew. One native explained to the chaplain, "After you left, we built the Church to worship ...

41. Truth and Consequences

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... plot. Scrooge is a very rich but stingy man, whose former partner Marley has died before him. It’s nearly Christmas, and Scrooge is, as is his usual way, giving everyone a hard time about the celebration and refusing to take part in any kind of “brotherly love” or even “human consideration.” That night, he is visited first by his dead friend Marley who comes to warn Scrooge that his current way of living will lead to a terrible doom in the afterlife. Marley sports chains and groans to prove it. As ...

42. God’s Chosen

Mark 1:4-11

Illustration

Gary Nicolosi

... went along with him. The people were favored with both men. In October 1997, Danny was in the hospital. His fifty-two year old body was failing. One night when ordinary people were eating supper, watching a ballgame or going to a movie, a simple story of brotherly love played itself out at the bedside of a man who never felt sorry for himself or thought he was different. Father Jim held his brother and asked, "Do you trust me, Danny?" "I trust you." "You're going to be OK." "I be OK." Eight hundred people ...

43. God’s Judgment of the Foreign Nations

Amos 1:1-2:5

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... allies, so they would wholeheartedly agree that God should destroy Tyre with fire and ruin the king’s palace. Next Amos addresses the many sins of Edom (1:11–12), the descendants of Esau (Gen. 36:1). Although Jacob and Esau were blood brothers and should have had brotherly love for one another, the two nations that came from these brothers fought again and again (2 Sam. 8:11–14; 2 Kings 8:20–22; 14:7; 16:6). Amos concludes that it was just for God’s wrath to fall on Edom because the Edomites have ...

44. The Knot: Tied

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

James Merritt

... passionate, emotional, every lusty appetite for the one you are married to. As too many couples find out, eros love doesn’t last forever. There is another word used for love, which is “philos.” We get the word “Philadelphia” from that which means “brotherly love.” That love stands for the kind of warm affection that is shared between family or close friends. That word is not as emotionally charged as the word “eros.” It has more character to it. This was the word that would have been more ...

45. With Malice toward None, With Charity for All

Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

James Merritt

... is doing good and enduring evil. Real love is when you do good to a person that you are enduring evil from at the same time. Now this is a special love, I admit. The Greek language has four different terms that can be translated love. Philia is brotherly love and a friendly love. Storge is family love. Eros is romantic love. But the love that Jesus speaks of here is Agape which is a sacrificial love that has as its greatest desire to meet the other person's need. I heard about a woman who had some chickens ...

46. A Jiffy for Eternity

John 3:1-17

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... God's desire to love us because "God is love" (1 John 4:16). God's love says, "I love you simply because I love you." The truth is that we possess nothing and control nothing that God needs. Nor can we ever hope to extend to God a mutual brotherly love. The only thing we need to do to know God's love is receive it. This jiffy sentence that speaks to us of eternity also speaks to the span of God's love. It tells us that "God so loved the world." The word "so" now gets our focus. We ...

47. Let Us Love One Another

2 John 1:1-13

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

... by the schism delimits the circle of love, at least in this crisis situation. Truth is the sphere which determines who are the real Johannine Christians (as opposed to those false teachers who have left the community) and, therefore, the area in which “brotherly love” is to be exercised. Those who know the truth are the remaining members of the community who are agreed on the basic christological doctrine under fire in the schism. Truth (alētheia) occurs five times in the first four verses, a striking ...

48. Feed My Sheep

John 21:1-19

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... reaches past self and into community? Peter, to whom the question was not addressed, jumped in and said, “sure, I love you.” But he didn’t respond with the word “agape.” He instead responded with the Greek, “philio,” which means brotherly love. Or perhaps in a more contemporary rendering it could mean “buddies.” “Sure, man, I love ya….” This is substantially different than “agape love.” Philio is an individualistic affection. It is defined and categorized as a kind of caring with ...

49. Love of God and Love of Country

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... United States is the New Israel. Henry is an avid believer in church-state separation and contends that prophecy and other calls to national accountability are the domain of the churches and not the government. He declares that preachers who utter "nonsense" about brotherly love, world peace, and fighting poverty are godless socialists. Yes, Henry loves his country. Bob, on the other hand, is a man who loves his God. He is always chattering about a "higher" law which governs the affairs of men. In his own ...

50. Romans 13:9-21

Romans 13:8-14

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... outside the community of faith? In verses 9b‑13 these exhortations are specific to the expression of authentic love among fellow Christians. The “mutual affection” they are to show one another is the “devotion” (“philostorgoi”) of “brotherly love” (“philadelphia”). As the common stem “phila” suggests, both terms are describing family relationships, with the “family” here being the body of Christ. Paul also suggests that a uniquely Christian form of competitive behavior is part ...

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