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201. Faith Working In Love

James 2:14-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... sick right no, like you are." She coaxes the baby to nurse at a bottle. She bathes the child, croons softly, tries a little patty-cake game. "After a while, maybe you get a smile," she tells a visitor. "So you know the baby's trying too. You keep loving it -- and you wait." Clara Hale is 79 years old, a tiny, birdlike woman with nut-brown skin and a curling halo of white hair. "The baby craves something he doesn't understand," she explains. The "something" is heroin, and it may take a month before the baby ...

202. Who Loves More?

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... with 17 cents. He put the dime, the nickel, and the two pennies in an envelope and gave it to his father with a note: “I love you, Dad. Happy Birthday. Thanks for being the best dad in the whole world. Sorry I did not get you a gift. This is all I’ve ... good person. We tend to even say the word sneeringly—Pharisee. But Pharisees were good people; they were religious people. This Pharisee loved God, and sought to live according to God’s ways. He invited Jesus to come to his house for a meal and ...

203. Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Bulletin Aid

H. Burnham Kirkland

... of life. People: We come to drink from that fountain that we may go from this place to demonstrate God's love to all we meet. All: Thanks be to the God of love! Amen. Collect Lord, we come this morning because we know how much we need faith, hope, and love. We understand that love never gives up, and faith, hope, and patience never fail when we truly love. Send your Spirit upon us as we worship that love may be rekindled in our lives, and as it burns within us it may ignite all our actions. We pray in ...

204. Love without Limits

John 13:31-38

Sermon

John K. Bergland

... be saved. Peter responded, "I used to believe that way too until God got a hold of me and showed me that his love was not limited to a set of rules or laws." Peter continued with a compelling testimony of how God had stretched his boundaries ... all God's children? God never intended God's boundaries to be less than the whole world. Therefore, none of us have a monopoly on God's love. We may feel like we do when we look down on someone different than we are, or when we snicker at someone's misfortune, or when ...

205. Outrageous Love

John 13:1-15

Sermon

Shirley Gupton Lynn

... to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you" (14-15). The example, of course, was not the literal washing of feet but the example of servanthood. Jesus has set the example of humble love, and he expects his disciples to follow it. So this text seems to be just an example story. But, things are not always what they seem. Once I was driving from Memphis to see my mother in Kentucky. I always went through Dyersburg, where I stopped at McDonald's ...

206. P.S. I Love You

John 21:1-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... about who was addressing them they heard the voice of one with authority over themselves and their actions and acted accordingly. These actions are rewarded with a net so filled with fish that it was impossible to haul aboard. The “disciple whom Jesus loved” repeats his “seeing and believing” response first experienced at the empty tomb (20:8). He instantly asserts and announces to Simon Peter “It is the Lord.” (v.7). Peter, always more a man of actions than words, responds by jumping into the ...

207. Love without Limits

Acts 11:1-18

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... father! I thought she was your child!” The man replied, “Aren’t they all our children?”[2] Aren’t they? Aren’t we all God’s children? God never intended God’s boundaries to be less than the whole world. Therefore, none of us have a monopoly on God’s love. We may feel like we do when we look down on someone different than we are, or when we snicker at someone’s misfortune, or when we say, “Thank you, Lord, that I am not like them,” or when we say, “It’s too bad they do not believe ...

208. Rule of Love

Matthew 22:34-46

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... from the message of the Bible as a whole, constitute God’s will and God’s truth. Yet another guideline is called The Rule of Love, and as you can see, I have borrowed this phrase for the title of this sermon. This is at the heart of what I would ... Jesus! “Which of all of these 613 is the greatest?” To answer, Jesus drew one commandment from the book of Deuteronomy: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your mind” (Deuteronomy 6:5). Jesus said ...

209. The Last Commandment: Love One Another

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Children's Sermon

Various Authors

... ’s feet. No servants. Not Peter. Nor John. Not any of the disciples. Surely not Judas Iscariot, who would betray Jesus later. So Jesus got up and took the bowl, like this one, and washed the disciples’ feet. And then Jesus said, “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.” Actions are more powerful than words aren’t they? Now, who will volunteer to have their feet washed tonight? Be brave. When I wash your feet, my washing says I really do ...

210. Transforming Love

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... crawl up underneath the recliner and sleep. It was his own little cave. They would forget he was inside the chair, and when they got up to go to bed, it would startle him awake. He would come bounding out to see what all the commotion was about. Bo loved for the children to play with him. The children would chase around after him and he would bounce away from them as quick as lightning. He would allow them to get just close enough to him that they would think they could catch him. Then, as they grabbed for ...

211. Love In Action

1 John 3:11-24

Sermon

Mark J. Molldrem

... risk his life for a meal? The good shepherd will risk his life for the sake of the sheep. Here is where Jesus demonstrates his love for us in the greatest way possible. Jesus puts his life on the battle line between us and our spiritual enemies: sin and death. They ... for any youth who wants to go to Bible camp but who has financial difficulties getting there. Alice is a good sheep, who loves,"not in word or speech, but in truth and action." Consider Lynn. Faithfully she would go to the nursing home to see ...

212. Abounding Love

Philippians 1:9

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... to other people? (response) You know, Jesus was like that, too. When someone is always pouring out love, we say that that person is "abounding" in love. And to be abounding in love, you have to be full of love, don't you? Well, the Apostle Paul told the people in the early church that he wanted them to have a lot of love. He said, "It is my prayer that your love will abound more and more." How can we be filled with love? (response) By letting Jesus fill our hearts. So the next time you see a glass of water ...

213. Love is...

John 14:15-31

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... she told you. It will be the best Mother's Day ever if you do this. Listen to something Jesus said; he said, "If you love me, you will obey me." What did Jesus mean: If you love me, you will obey me? (response) He was telling us that the best way to show our love for God is to obey him and do what he tells us to do. This is also the best way to show our love for Mom. We need to do what mom tells us to do. If she tells you to sit up and eat your lunch then ...

214. Love Over Logic

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Carl Jech

... our accepting God, by recognizing that God's free will to save us is stronger than our free will to do what is evil or good, Luther was struggling to move us beyond the simple logic of earning reward and punishment to an awareness of the ultimate triumph of love and grace. He was struggling, as Saint Paul does in Romans 4, to re-interpret and/or develop our understanding of what grace and faith really mean. This is a part of what Jesus is talking about when he says in Luke 13:5 "Unless you repent, you will ...

215. Another Great Love Story

Genesis 29:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... is from his pre-Bethel days. He has become a man of principle, a man of character. That's the kind of man you want to love you, isn't it ladies--a man of principle and character? A man you can depend on? Jacob is now that kind of man. After all this, ... men, but in reality, it is a recipe for disaster. Jacob was saddled with Rachel AND Leah. It did not matter that Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah. In fact, that fact led to much intrigue. A contest began for Jacob's affection. Leah began bearing children. The ...

216. The Love Triangle: Man-Woman-God

Psalm 127:1-5

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... sides, two facets of our personalities. One side is ugly and we try to cover it up. At our worst we can be petty and selfish and mean-spirited and resentful and jealous. Rather than taking responsibility for our failures, we blame others, even those we love most. Remember that when God reprimanded Adam for eating the forbidden fruit, he took it like a man. He blamed his wife. But thankfully, we have another side to us that is the very opposite. At our best we can be kind, tolerant, unselfish, forgiving, and ...

217. See What Love . . .

1 John 3:1-7

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... it lived out in our righteous Messiah. I. Children of God A. Today I don't want you to step back in time. We're not really going on a nostalgia trip. Instead, I just want you to remember how it felt to be safe and unafraid because of the love of your parents. For some of us, there are fond memories of joyous times, of carefree times. But for some others, there never was a sense of safety. For there never was a sense of belonging. Maybe they were the unwanted step children in a second or third marriage. Or ...

218. Real Love

1 John 4:7-21

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... This is the first Sunday in Lent. That means that it is six weeks until Easter. During Lent we celebrate Christ's death on the Cross. Why is a cross a symbol of love? That's right. "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son..." Christians have always considered the cross the greatest symbol of love in the world, because it celebrates the love of God for each of us. You know what, though? I have a feeling that God likes Valentine's Day about as much as He likes the first Sunday in Lent. Well ...

219. He Loves You Anyway

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... words. Inscribe them in your brain, in your heart, in all the dark places where you believe you are unacceptable to God. “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” To seek and to save. We need both these verbs to understand God’s love. What if this verse read, “For the Son of Man came to seek the lost”? It would be so easy for us to misunderstand God’s character and purposes. We might believe Jesus seeks the lost so he can correct them, condemn them, stand in judgment of them, use ...

220. Love Is Better

1 Corinthians 13:1

Children's Sermon

... to hear what I have been saying ... (Have them stop playing the pans.) It is difficult to be heard over such a loud noise, but the Bible tells us that this is exactly what happens when people try to talk like Christians but do not have any love. The most important thing that a Christian can do is to love, and to love everyone. That is the most important thing. You can read the Bible, pray a hundred times a day and take care of someone who is sick and needs help, but if you do not do any of these things in ...

221. The Glue of God's Love

Mark 1:21-28

Children's Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... . So it will not make a mess you cannot clean up. Your mother does not have to worry when you use this glue. Now, let me ask you this question. Have you ever heard the expression, "I'm stuck on you?" Do you know what that means? It means, "I love you." It is something one of you boys might someday say to one of these girls. There is a glue in life that joins us together in the church. It helps us stick with our friends and our family members. Who knows what that is? It is God's ...

222. The Extravagance of Love

Luke 7:36-8:3

Sermon

David R. Cartwright

... that. The fact that she has her long hair down is a tip-off that she's a prostitute. In ancient Israel, Jewish brides bound their hair up at the wedding and never wore it down in public ever again. But it's this woman who showers an abundance of love on Jesus that overflows to the point of being nothing but extravagant. Her generous actions cannot help but be contrasted with the inaction of Simon's stinginess. Simon is so wrapped up in himself that he can't see what's going on before his eyes. We seem to ...

223. Hope: God Loves You

Hosea 11:1-11

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... of manna and quail (Exodus 16; Numbers 11). These are all examples of God’s tender care and expressions of his deep love for his people. The second paragraph indicates that the nation’s lack of repentance or turning to God will lead to divine ... to punish. This does not indicate that God is indecisive, does not know what to do, or is second-guessing himself. Because of his deep love for Israel he is in emotional anguish; he asks himself if it is really possible for him to give up on his children. In the ...

224. Only One Child to Love

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... had established that she was a wife and mother of three children, and he asked, "Which of your three children do you love the most?" She answered instantly, "I love all three of my children the same." He paused. The answer was almost too quick, too glib. He decided to probe a bit. "Come, now, you love all three of your children the same?" "Yes, that's right," she said, "I love all of them the same." He said, "Come off it now! It is psychologically impossible for anyone to regard any three human beings ...

225. Love And Boundaries

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

William G. Carter

... ’re not a member of my church, are you?’ If they are not members of my church, I will not help them.” You see, they stand beyond his boundaries. I don’t know how you feel about that. But it is true that some people erect fences around their love. They say things like: “I can’t kiss her, she’s black.” “I can’t hug him, he’s gay.” “I can’t hire her, she’s Hispanic.” “I can’t marry him, he’s disabled.” “I can’t trust her, she’s unfaithful.” “I can’t turn my ...

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