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26. Extreme Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... s buses that went into neighborhoods and transported kids to church. Every week she performed her duties. She would find the worst-looking kid on the bus, put him on her lap and whisper over and over the only words she had learned in English: “I love you. Jesus loves you.” After several months, she became attached to one little boy in particular. The boy didn’t speak. He came to Sunday School every week with his sister and sat on the woman’s lap, but he never made a sound. Each week she would tell ...

27. Love: The Greatest Commandment and the Greatest Challenge

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... his first owner mistreated and beat the dog. Every time he tried to pat him, Calvin would run or cower on the floor, waiting to be hit harshly. Steve Brown then shared, "I tried to tell him I would never hit him. I tried to explain to him that I loved him and that he was now a part of the Brown family and that Browns didn''t hit upon Browns. I tried to convince him that I was different than his previous owner. But Calvin would have none of it. I was a cruel, angry, mean master, and nothing would ...

28. Love of God, Self, and Neighbor

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... bad she was and what a rotten person she had been. I tried, in my simple way, to assure her that she was one of God’s creations. One day she called me on the phone and told me she had a title for a sermon - I should preach on "love yourself." Five days later, they found Betty dead on her kitchen floor. She had committed suicide by slashing her wrists. She just could not accept the fact that she was good and God-made. In an average year in the United States, 22,000 people kill themselves, and 100,000 ...

29. If I Have Not Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... caring enough to affirm and encourage. What about you? Are you guilty of murder by indifference? Win and Stephanie, guard against this happening in your marriage. The second specific failure point is that too often we ignore those who are growing old – for instance, parents and loved ones who are living alone, or in a nursing home. Isn’t it appropriate that on a day when we celebrate marriage, we look toward the end of the journey as well as the beginning. When I was the editor of The Upper Room I met ...

30. Love In Action

1 John 3:11-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... just going to sit there or are you going to fish?" That's the question I get from our lesson from I John. "Are you going to sit there or are you going to fish?" We read, "Little children, let us not love in word or speech but in deed and truth." In other words, anybody can say "I love you." Words are cheap. Action counts. Of course the matter is not simply "either...or." I don't believe that the writer of I John meant that we should not use the words. Father John Powell tells about a beautiful friendship ...

31. True Love

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... he knows that he does not want to be like them. (3) Some people become like Rick. They become hardened by life. They become cynical, suspicious. They refuse to stick out their neck for anyone. Fortunately God is not like that. Jesus was not like that. God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son. Pity the poor person who never is willing to stick out his or her neck for another human being. The best feeling you will ever have in your life is when you give of yourself for someone else. Dr ...

32. Hanging the Law on Love

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Cathy A. Ammlung

... the poor and weak have their burdens lifted. That the Good News is shared with them all. That sinners turn from their sin to receive life in God's kingdom -- and that they are welcomed into the fellowship of forgiven sinners. To love God means to say, "Yes!" to God's will with every fiber of our being. To love our neighbors means to pray for their good and to allow God to do, through us, even a small portion of his will for them. Even when we don't feel a particular way, we can still, with God's help, begin ...

33. Can We Love Too Much?

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... a church bus and kills twenty-seven youths, it is stupid to say that their deaths were God’s will. It is possible not to love God with the mind. In that case the mind is used in the service of Satan. The mind can cook up terrible ideas. It ... we may wonder why our Protestant churches are declining in membership or why our congregation is not growing. The answer is in not loving God with all our strength. Many church members are more interested in air-conditioned churches with cushions on the pews. They want ...

34. The Appearance of Love

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... and Barbara Rainey have written a book titled, Moments Together for Couples. In it, they tell about a group known as "The Men of the Titanic." Mark, a pastor in Toledo, Ohio, put together this group of men who resolved to demonstrate that they love their wives sacrificially. They named themselves after the men who sacrificed their lives so their wives and children could board the lifeboats as that famous ocean liner sank back in 1912. For six months, these men planned the most incredible evening a woman ...

35. Loved People, Love People

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... said. He said, "You are a Jensen, so act like one." That is what Jesus is saying to us also. "You are loved by God, so act like a loved person by keeping the commandments." Jesus uses other figures of speech in these verses to say the same thing. "I have called ... you do not encounter any of these poor chilren in your normal daily routine. I know I don’t. Our individual acts of love, therefore, will not begin to touch this problem. We really need to get at the structures and systems of life in our nation ...

36. Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Will Willimon

... father. He told Dr. King how his father could not understand him and how they had grown apart. "What can I do," he asked Dr. King, "to raise the consciousness of my father, to make my father see that he is a racist, that all of his pious talk about 'loving black people' is just a lie?" Dr. King put his hand on the angry young man's hand and said, "Your father is doing the best he can. He has not had many of your opportunities, opportunities which your father has provided for you. As a Christian, you must be ...

37. Learning to Love Ourselves

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

James McCormick

... , more noble lifestyle becomes expected. It is true, “As a person thinks in his heart, so shall he be.” And listen now, this is important: the more we act according to our own high expectations, the more we become people we can like. And, the fact is, in order to love ourselves over a long period of time, we must be able to like ourselves. We must become worthy of our own self respect. One of the most important things in life, for me, is to be able to go into the bathroom at the end of the day, look at ...

38. Furnishing It with Love

1 John 4:7-18

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... do not do more to others than they do to you, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.’ Then Jesus came and said, ‘You don’t have to get’em back. There is no need to get even. With My grace, you can forgive and you can love.’ Is it not a better way to live? Jim Moore tells the story about General Omar Bradley traveling on a commercial airline in a business suit. A young, gregarious private in the Army sat down beside the general and not recognizing him wanted to talk. You must be a banker ...

39. Love Each Other (Mother's Day)

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... her shoulders and said, “It wasn’t your baby.” (4) Every parent worth his or her salt understands. There is nothing that we will not do for our children. Of course, some of us are at that stage of life when it is our parents who need our sacrificial love. It’s part of the circle of life. Our parents provided for our needs when we were young, but now it is they who have pressing needs. Who will be there for them? You may be part of what is often referred to as the “sandwich generation,” caught ...

40. Loving Like God Loves

Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... a savage. Or perhaps he is afraid of you because he feels you are afraid of him. And perhaps if he believed you were capable of loving him he would no longer be your enemy. Do not be too quick to assume that your enemy is an enemy of God just because he ... her into a closet. Hartman dropped to her knees and asked the burglar if she could pray for him. "I want you to know that God loves you and I forgive you,'' she said. The burglar apologized for what he had done. Then he yelled out the door to a woman in a ...

41. The Majesty Of God's Love

John 17:1-11

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... people who are yearning to help make all human beings one people (John 17:18-21). Don't you yearn for it, too? Believing in the Trinity has all sorts of practical implications about the way you live your life. How dare we say we believe in a God whose love is so great that it makes one out of many, if we also do not, year after year, live as though we and all people were one? It is a little wonder that Jesus prayed that his people might be one. What did he mean by praying for our oneness ...

42. The Primacy Of Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... persecute you, so that you will become the sons of your Father in Heaven. For He makes the son to rise on bad and good people alike, and gives rain to those who do good and to those who do evil. Why should God reward you if you love only the people who love you? Even the tax collectors do that! And if you speak only to your friends, have you done anything out of the ordinary? Even the pagans do that! You must be perfect -- just as your Father in Heaven is perfect." Get the message now. We are commanded to ...

43. I Love You, Too

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Nancy Kraft

... " (1 John 4:19). Anyone who has ever started at Genesis and tried the read the Bible all the way through will tell you that it's not easy. It can be very confusing if you're trying to figure out the nature of God. In some places, God is loving and nurturing, providing for all of his people's needs. And in other places, he's so angry that he wipes out entire cities with the snap of his fingers. In some places he's a rock that can't be moved and in other places a conversation with a ...

44. Walking in the Way of Love

Ephesians 4:25-5:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... had a vote in how his story would end. He knew that he would die for the sake of people who hated him, who rejected him, who abandoned him. He chose to be a sacrifice for us to show us just how much God loves us. And sacrificial love has been breaking open hearts and changing lives and bringing people to God for over 2,000 years now. There is a mission organization in Grass Valley, California, called Christian Encounter Ranch. It is a residential counseling program for young people who come from backgrounds ...

45. How To Love

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... it. And even then, you probably wouldn't be very convincing. But Jesus is commanding us to love one another as he loved us. He isn't talking about an emotion. No, the love Jesus is talking about is a decision. It is a decision to humble ourselves. It is a ... Joan Benny, "I believed there was some kind of scientific connection between kissing and car-starting." (5) No wonder Joan Benny loved her father so much. Jack Benny was not afraid to show his affection. A judge in Philadelphia, speaking of his experiences ...

46. Love That Surpasses Knowledge

Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

Thomas Lentz

... you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example that you should follow in his steps" (1 Peter 2:20-21). If we are to approach the way of biblical love, we must spend a long time meditating on what it means when the Bible says we must deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Christ. In the book, The Fire of Your Life by Maggie Ross, there is the story of a Jewish woman, a holocaust survivor, who ...

47. Known By Our Love

John 13:31-35

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... for one another look like? How do we know it when we see it? How do we know it when we experience it? How do we know it when we do it? Let me suggest that the psychologist Harry Stack Sullivan’s definition of the state of love provides a nice opening wedge into these questions. To paraphrase ever so slightly, Stack says that whenever you are as concerned about the safety, the satisfaction, or the happiness of another person as you are about your own safety, satisfaction, and happiness, there the state of ...

48. Love - A Christian Imperative

John 15:1-17

Sermon

George Bass

... man in the grave where Jesus lay. Now is the accepted time; now his arms are open to you; now the Master is seeking companions.’ " When we are Jesus’ friends and companions, Thielicke contends, we may, anytime and at last, look death in the eye and, in love, "make the royal Easter confession of one who is great in the kingdom of God ..." And for himself, he declares: "Therefore, when I die - though now I die no more - and someone finds my skull, may this skull preach to him as follows: I have no eyes ...

49. Let Us Love One Another

2 John 1:1-13

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

... Titus 1:5; Jas. 5:14). Since he was well known to his readers, he did not need to use his name. The elder’s loving yet commanding tone reveals him as the ruling teacher of a region which included many congregations or house churches. He sent his emissaries to visit ... 49; 5:7; 6:34, 68; 9:36, 38; 11:3, 12, 39; 12:21). He asks this house church, simply but profoundly, that we love one another. This request is not a new command, and, therefore, it is not to be rejected either as novel or as imposing an ...

50. Framed by Love

John 14:15-21

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... say if off by heart. But the way Jesus defined love was new, for he said, “Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another” (John 13:34). In his life and ministry, Jesus showed love for his disciples over and over again. He invited them ... sister, our spouse, our children. But Jesus himself remained single, and in his earthly ministry he expanded the definition of love and family life beyond the biological family. So when Jesus’ mother and his siblings came looking for him, the gospel of ...

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