In Sermon Illustrations: "Christs Love For Us"

Heroic Love

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Oct 10, 2009

HEROIC LOVE St. Gianna Molla stands out as another fool for Christ. She conceived a child and then discovered a grave medical problem. A doctor herself, "A few days before the child was due, although trusting as always in Providence, she was ready to give her life in order to save that of her ...read more

Tags: God's Love

Denomination: Catholic

Love Makes  PRO

Contributed by Mike Leiter on Sep 2, 2003

Love makes obedience a thing of joy! To do the will of one we like to please Is never hardship, though it tax our strength; Each privilege of service love will seize! Love makes us loyal, glad to do or go, And eager to defend a name or cause; Love takes the drudgery from common work, And asks ...read more

Tags: Compassion, Love For God

Denomination: Vineyard

God's Love

Contributed by Greg Burcham on Feb 12, 2017

“Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.” 1John 3:1 With everything that has been going on in the news and the world lately, it is safe to say that most of us don’t ...read more

Scripture: John 3:1

Tags: Morality, God's Love

Denomination: Baptist

I Love The Story About The Little Girl Who Went ...  PRO

Contributed by Melvin Newland on Nov 9, 2001

I love the story about the little girl who went to Sunday School. When she came home with her Sunday School papers, she & her mom were leafing through them & they came to a picture of Jesus. Her mother asked, "Do you know who that ...read more

Tags: Miracles Of Jesus, Lordship Of Christ

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Athanasius Contends For The Deity Of Christ  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on May 1, 2012

ATHANASIUS CONTENDS FOR THE DEITY OF CHRIST If Jesus is something less than God, he has no right and no power to forgive our sins. If Jesus can’t forgive our sins, we have no hope. Yes, the doctrine of the deity of Christ is worth contending for. And there is nobody God used more to contend for ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 1:6-9

Tags: Doctrine

Love As Evangelism

Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008

Love as Evangelism When Henry Stanley went out in 1871 and found Dr. Livingstone, (remember: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?") he spent some months in his company, but Livingstone never spoke to Stanley about spiritual things. Throughout those months Stanley just watched the old man. Livingstone’s ...read more

Tags: Evangelism The Lost

No Farewell To Love  PRO

Contributed by Bill Butsko on Sep 2, 2007

“No Farewell to Love” As an aged Christian lay dying, a friend called to say farewell. “I have just had three other visitors,” said the dying man, “and with two of them I parted; but the third I shall keep with me forever.” “Who are they?” “the first was Faith, and I said, ‘Goodbye, Faith! I ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:2

Tags: Love, Priorities

Denomination: Christian Church

Commitment And Loyalty To Christ Likened To A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 7, 2010

Commitment and Loyalty to Christ Likened to a Trapeze Artist John Ortberg (Faith & Doubt, p. 169-170) says the word trapeze describes the bar between the ropes of a trapeze artist in the circus. It’s a Greek word, meaning table. It’s used in the New Testament when Jesus gathers his friends around ...read more

Scripture: Luke 14:26-27

Tags: Discipleship

Love Lifted Me!

Contributed by Rick Palmer on Nov 4, 2018

God took a big basket and put everything in my life that was important, everything of value, and everything worth living for into the basket. Then he lifted it up very high and turn that basket upside down and shook it until it all scattered. Let me clarify, at the age of 36 I ...read more

Scripture: Acts 3:19, 2 Peter 3:9, 2 Timothy 2:25, Ezekiel 18:30, Proverbs 28:13, Acts 3:26, Psalm 40:2-3  (view more)  (view less)

Tags: Evangelism, Judgement, Cross Of Jesus, Jesus The Rock, Pray For The Lost, He Choose Me, Salvation Testimony, Lifted From The Mire, Salvation, Divorce, Depravity, Suicide, Cross Of Christ, Iniquity  (view more)  (view less)

Hope For When Christ Comes

Contributed by Martin Spoelstra on Jun 27, 2021

This two-part story can frame a message on heaven, hope or the resurrection. The 1989 Armenian earthquake needed only 4 minutes to flatten the nation and kill 30,000 people. Moments after the deadly tremor ceased, a father raced to an elementary school to save his son. When he arrived, he saw that ...read more

Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:14, 1 Corinthians 15:17, 1 Corinthians 15:23, Romans 6:5-9

Tags: Resurrection, Heaven, Hope

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

A Superior Love

Contributed by David Tack on Sep 18, 2024

“The strenuous Christian mandate to extend unconditional love towards those that hate you is a fatiguing duty for the soldiers of the cross of Christ! In the heat of a damning spiritual warfare, when the spiritual defensive battlefronts are diminishing, the fleshly armaments derived from the human ...read more

Scripture: John 3:16, Romans 5:7-8, Ephesians 2:4-7

Tags: Love, Unconditional, Soldier

Denomination: Baptist

Christ Is The Wind, Christianity Is The Sail  PRO

Contributed by Ken Pell on Mar 2, 2013

CHRIST IS THE WIND, CHRISTIANITY IS THE SAIL Does the practice of our religion reflect the God we serve? In Shane Hipps' book, "Selling Water by the River: A Book about the Life Jesus Promised and the Religion that Gets in the Way," he uses an analogy from sailing to express what has happened in ...read more

Scripture: James 1:26-27

Tags: Religion

Denomination: Nazarene

Agape Love, The Highest Form Of Love, Is ...  PRO

Contributed by Charles Mallory on Feb 9, 2001

AGAPE LOVE, THE HIGHEST FORM OF LOVE, IS REFERENCED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT 137 TIMES AS ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Tags: Christian Love, God's Provision

Denomination: Free Methodist

In Praising Or Loving A Child, We Love And ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, ...read more

Tags: Children

The Fruit Of The Spirit Begins With Love...love ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"The fruit of the Spirit begins with love...love is the first thing, the first in that precious cluster of fruit. Someone has said that all other eight can be put in terms of love. Joy is love exulting; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love on trial; gentleness is love in society; ...read more

Tags: Character

Loving Mean To Love That Which Is Unlovable Or ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Loving mean to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all; forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable or it is no virtue at all; and to hope means ...read more

Tags: Christian Values

Love That Reaches Up Is Adoration. Love That ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Love that reaches up is adoration. Love that reaches out is affection. Love ...read more

Tags: Christian Love

Loving Mean To Love That Which Is Unlovable Or ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Loving mean to love that which is unlovable or it ...read more

Tags: Christian Love

The Secret Of Being Loved Is Being Lovely; And ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

The secret of being loved is being lovely; and the secret of being ...read more

Tags: Christian Love

To Love And Be Loved Is To Feel The Sun From ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

To love and be loved is to feel the sun ...read more

Tags: Christian Love