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One Of The Greatest Theologians That Ever Liv...

Contributed by Lalachan Abraham on Dec 24, 2015

One of the greatest theologians that ever lived, Karl Barth, was asked to be a guest lecturer at the University of Chicago Divinity School. At the end of a captivating closing lecture, the president of the seminary announced that Dr. Barth was not well and was quite tired, and though he thought ...read more

Scripture: John 3:16-17

Tags: Christmas Love, God's Love For Us

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Bee The Body Of Christ

Contributed by Dr. Bradford Reaves on Jan 14, 2022

My dad has bees. Today I went to his house and he showed me all of the honey he had gotten from the hives. He took the lid off of a 5 gallon bucket full of honey and on top of the honey there were 3 little bees, struggling. They were covered in sticky honey and drowning. I asked him if we could ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:27, Galatians 6:2

Tags: Caring, Bees, Love, Church, Family, Body Of Christ, Helping  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Brethren

Joy In Christ Requires A Commitment To ...  PRO

Contributed by John Hamby on Jan 8, 2001

“Joy in Christ requires a commitment to working at the Christian lifestyle. Salvation comes as a gif, but the joy of salvation demands disciplined action. Most Christians I know have just enough of the Gospel to make them miserable, but not enough to make them joyful. They know enough about the ...read more

Tags: Love Of The Disciples, Joy, Disciplines General

Denomination: Baptist

Christ With No ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008

CHRIST WITH NO HANDS During World War II, a church building in Strasburg was destroyed. After the bombing, the members surveyed the area to see what damage was done. They were pleased that a statue of Christ with outstretched hands was still standing… because it had been sculpted centuries before ...read more

Tags: Servanthood

Duty Makes Us Do Things Well, But Love Makes Us ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do ...read more

Tags: Christian Love

Some Of Us Love To Take The Simple And Make It ...  PRO

Contributed by Joseph Smith on Jan 25, 2001

Some of us love to take the simple and make it complex. Some of us thrive on taking perfectly obvious matters and making them as obscure as possible. My neighbor’s car has on it a bumper sticker that says, “Eschew obfuscation”. After about ...read more

Scripture: Acts 17:22-31

Tags: Bible Study

Denomination: Baptist

The Christian Does Not Think God Will Love Us ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a sunhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, ...read more

Tags: Forgiveness In Jesus

Keep Us Little And Unknown, Prized And Loved By ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006

"Keep us little and unknown, prized and loved by God ...read more

Tags: Christian Values

To Love Each Other Is To Use The Most Powerful ...

Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Feb 24, 2007

To love each other is to use the most powerful tool we have to demonstrate to other people what it means to know ...read more

Denomination: Salvation Army

Love Truly Does Compel Us To Go The ...

Contributed by William Yates on Nov 8, 2003

Illustration: Love truly does compel us to go the distance for the object of our affection. Mel Gibson, playing cab driver Jerry Fletcher in “Conspiracy Theory,” said this to someone riding in his cab: “Love gives you wings! It makes you fly. I don’t even call it love—I call it Geronimo. You see, ...read more

Tags: Romantic Love

Augustine: "He Loves Each One Of Us, As If There ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

Augustine: “He loves each one of us, as if there ...read more

Tags: Jonah

Overwhelm Us Lord In Your Love, A Heart ...

Contributed by Ian Johnson on Feb 22, 2008

Overwhelm us Lord in your love, a heart overwhelmed is transformed, a transformed heart loves, Love overwhelms our surroundings, Transformation ...read more

Denomination: Pentecostal

The Real Question Is Not Whether God Loves Us, ...

Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 11, 2009

“The real question is not whether God loves us, but whether He approves of us, whether we are pleasing to Him. One thing is certain: if we are not pleasing to God, He will never ...read more

Tags: Love For God

Denomination: Baptist

We Love Life, Not Because We Are Used To ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"We love life, not because we are used to living, but because ...read more

Tags: Learning

The Most Of Us Want Very Much To Be Loved. ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

The most of us want very much to be loved. Perhaps we are not ...read more

Tags: Christian Love

Thinking Is Like Loving And Dying Each Of Us ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Thinking is like loving and dying each of us must ...read more

Tags: Thought

Holiness Is Not The Way To Christ, But Christ ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"Holiness is not the way to Christ, but Christ is ...read more

Tags: Holiness

What If God Was One Of Us?" By ...  PRO

Contributed by Troy Borst on Aug 19, 2004

ILLUSTRATION... “What if God Was One of Us?” by Joan Osborne The world sometimes wonders about God and wonders what He is like and what He is up to. Most people believe there is a God up there but they do not know what He is like. A pop song in 1995 by Joan Osbourne entitled, ’What if God was ...read more

Tags: Humanity Of Christ

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Psychologists Tell Us That The Excitement Of ...

Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Nov 8, 2003

Psychologists tell us that the excitement of being in love increases your heart rate so that your face glows, your lips look more red, and those circles under your eyes actually become less noticeable! Heightened emotions of love cause your pupils to ...read more

Tags: Romantic Love

Kindness In Us Is The Honey That Blunts The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Kindness in us is the honey that blunts the sting of ...read more

Tags: Christian Love