In Sermon Illustrations: "love one another"

Loving Your Enemies In Rwanda  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2010

Loving Your Enemies in Rwanda Rwanda is a tiny country in Central Africa, a bit bigger than Northern Ireland, with a population of over 8 million people, and thousands of hills. Rwanda is a beautiful country of hills, mountains, forests, lakes, laughing children, markets full of busy people, ...read more

Scripture: Luke 6:27-36

Tags: Forgiveness For Others

Robert Browning – Life In A Love ...

Contributed by Gerald Du Preez on Jul 20, 2010

Robert Browning – Life in a Love 1855: • “To dry one’s eyes and laugh at a fall, And ...read more

Tags: Trials And Difficulties

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

Love Your Neighbor's Broccoli

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2009

LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR’S BROCCOLI A little girl stayed for dinner at the home of her friend. The vegetable was buttered broccoli, and the mother asked if she liked it. The child replied very politely, "Oh, yes, I love it." But when the bowl of broccoli was passed, she declined to take any. The hostess ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:43-48

Tags: Christian Love

Love Is The Seed Of All Hope. It Is The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to ...read more

Tags: Christian Love

Love Is A Gross Exaggeration Of The Difference ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 29, 2002

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody ...read more

Tags: Christian Love, Romantic Love

It Is Not Your Love That Sustains The Marriage, ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the ...read more

Tags: Marriage General

Everyone Admits That Love Is Wonderful And ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just ...read more

Tags: Christian Love

The Story Of A Love Is Not Important What Is ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

The story of a love is not important what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only ...read more

Tags: Christian Love

Charity Is A Principle Of Prevailing Love To ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Charity is a principle of prevailing love to God and goodwill to men, which effectually inclines one endued with it ...read more

Tags: Forgiveness General

There Is Love At Christmas Because Christmas ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"There is love at Christmas because Christmas was born of love. Let us, each one, keep alive ...read more

Tags: Christmas

Love Is An Image Of God, And Not A Lifeless ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image; not one painted on paper, but the living essence of the divine ...read more

Tags: Christian Love

One Sunday As They Drove Home From Church, A ...  PRO

Contributed by Kyle Meador on Jan 15, 2001

One Sunday as they drove home from church, a little girl turned to her mother and said, "Mommy, there’s something about the preacher’s message this morning that I don’t understand." The mother said, "Oh? What is it?" The little girl replied, "Well, he said that God is bigger than we are. He said ...read more

Tags: Love Of The Disciples, Sharing My Testimony, Sharing Your Faith

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Love's Old-Fashioned Notion

Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on Sep 4, 2011

LOVE'S OLD-FASHIONED NOTION Tina Turner once asked a powerful question, one that became a hit song of the early-eighties. She asked, "What does love have to do with it?" Her song is replete with two, rhetorical questions: "What's love but a second hand emotion" and "Who needs a heart, when a ...read more

Tags: Christian Love

Denomination: Lutheran

It Is No Marvel That The Devil Does Not Love ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

“It is no marvel that the devil does not love field preaching! Neither do I; I love a commodious room, a soft cushion, a handsome pulpit. But where is my zeal if I do not trample all ...read more

Tags: Evangelism How To

Faith Becomes Love In Action

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Apr 5, 2023

FAITH IS AN ACTION WORD… Is this real? I place a metal chair in front of the crowd. I talk about how strong the chair appears to be? Then I ask the crowd do you think this chair is strong enough to hold one of us? We discuss why we think this chair could possibly hold a human’s weight. What would ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 4:7-9, John 15:13-16, Luke 24:7

Tags: Faith, Love, Action

Denomination: Assembly Of God

You Have To Love Him Into It

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 1, 2010

"You Have To Love Him Into It"--A Stock Assistant Learns a Big Lesson A stock assistant was working at a grocery store on Christmas Eve. One of the things he was responsible for was the display in one of the aisles which was a pyramid of canned products. He had to rebuild this display many times ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:8-20

Tags: Unconditional Love

There Is Such A Love That Creates Value In What ...  PRO

Contributed by Steve Malone on Mar 15, 2005

There is such a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls into priceless treasures. There is a love that fastens itself onto ragged little creatures, for reasons that no one could ever quite figure out, and makes them precious and valued beyond calculation. ...read more

Tags: Promises Of God

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Ultimate Love, Complete Humility  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2002

ULTIMATE LOVE, COMPLETE HUMILITY Only one act of pure love, unsullied by any taint of ulterior motive, has ever been performed in the history of the world, namely the self-giving of God in Christ on the cross for undeserving sinners. That is why, if we are looking for a definition of love, we ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 2:5-8

Tags: Christian Love, Forgiveness In Jesus

God Loves Us The Way We Are But He Loves Us Too ...

Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 18, 2005

God loves us the way we are but He loves us too much to leave us ...read more

Tags: God's Sovereign Will

Denomination: Wesleyan

May Those Who Love Us, Love Us; And Those Who ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2006

“May those who love us, love us; and those who don’t love us, may God turn their hearts; and if He doesn’t turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles so ...read more

Tags: Friendship New Friends