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  • No Greater Love  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2002
    based on 76 ratings
     | 10,485 views

    NO GREATER LOVE It was February 1941, Auschwitz, Poland. Maximilian Kolbe was a Franciscan priest put in the infamous death camp for helping Jews escape Nazi terrorism. Months went by and in desperation an escape took place. The camp rule was enforced. Ten people would be rounded up ...read more

  • Love Them  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2002
    based on 22 ratings
     | 2,559 views

    LOVE THEM Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved. Kate Samperi, author SOURCE: Celebrating Mothers: A Book ...read more

  • Mother's Love  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Landry on May 11, 2002
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,143 views

    Mother’s Love A Mother’s love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away... It is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, And it ...read more

  • The Love Of Christ  PRO

    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Sep 23, 2002
    based on 26 ratings
     | 6,654 views

    THE LOVE OF CHRIST I want to tell you of a modern day Damascus road experience that some of you may find hard to believe. It is reported in an article by Fred Markert in the current issue of Pray Magazine. Fred is the International Director of YWAM’s Strategic Frontiers, a group that focuses on ...read more

  • Loves Much  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 11, 2001
    based on 26 ratings
     | 1,534 views

    Whoever loves much, does much. ...read more

  • Concrete Love  PRO

    Contributed by Glenn Hickey on Jun 10, 2003
    based on 31 ratings
     | 7,568 views

    CONCRETE LOVE Pastor Joel Gregory tells the story of a seminary professor who taught the Christian graces of love and forbearance for forty years until he retired. Occupying himself in his retirement years, he poured a new concrete driveway to his house. Finished, he went in to rest and get a ...read more

  • Love Makes  PRO

    Contributed by Mike Leiter on Sep 2, 2003
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,908 views

    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

  • Love Is The Key  PRO

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 29, 2003
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,025 views

    “LOVE IS THE KEY” (copyrighted by John Gaughan) LOVE IS THE KEY, LOVE IS THE KEY THOUGH I SPEAK IN TONGUES OF ANGELS LOVE IS THE KEY LOVE IS PATIENT LOVE IS KIND, NOT SELF SEEKING LOVE IS BLIND, LOVE IS TRUTHFUL LOVE IS TRUST, TO LOVE YOUR BROTHER IS A MUST. LOVE CAN BREAK, BUT LOVE WILL ...read more

  • The Inability To Love  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 26, 2004
    based on 19 ratings
     | 3,567 views

    Ortberg notes this about the inability to love: 1. The most serious sign of hurry sickness is a diminished capacity to love. Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is one thing hurried people don’t have (87). 2. The truth is look around at our society ...read more

  • Love Is The Spark  PRO

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Aug 11, 2004
    based on 13 ratings
     | 2,300 views

    “An anonymous soul has expressed it well: Love is the spark that kindles the fires of compassion. Compassion is the fire that flames the candle of service. Service is the candle that ignites the torch of hope. Hope is the torch that lights the beacon of faith. Faith is the beacon that reflects ...read more

  • Sacrificial Love:  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Miller on Jan 4, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,316 views

    SACRIFICIAL LOVE: (Poem by Ruth Bell Graham) Had I been Joseph’s mother I’d have prayed protection from his brothers "God, keep him safe. He is so young, so different from the others." Mercifully, she never knew there would be slavery and prison too. Had I been Moses’ mother I’d have ...read more

  • For The Love Of Work  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jan 18, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,701 views

    The story goes that when the company founded by Andrew Carnegie was taken over by the U.S. Steel Corporation in 1901 it acquired as one of its obligations a contract to pay the top Carnegie executive, Charles M. Schwab, the then unheard of minimum sum of $1,000,000. J.P. Morgan of U.S. Steel was in ...read more

  • God's Love

    Contributed by David Ward on Jan 23, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,441 views

    Frederick Buechner in "The Magnificent Defeat": ß “The love for equals is a human thing—of friend for friend, brother for brother. It is to love what is loving and lovely. The world smiles. ß The love for the less fortunate is a beautiful thing—the love for those who suffer, for those who are ...read more

  • Love And Friendship  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,874 views

    Love is blind; friendship closes its ...read more

  • Bouquet Of Love

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
     | 2,105 views

    Attention is like a daily bouquet of love. Bob Keeshan, ...read more

  • Unconditional Love  PRO

    Contributed by Marc Carr on Aug 7, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,804 views

    Unconditional Love Floyd Landis, embroiled in a doping scandal since winning this year’s Tour de France, raised a Mennonite in Pennsylvania, leans on his mother for support. “She’s the one that no matter what happens, to me or to anyone else in life, she will remain unchanged,” he said. “When ...read more

  • Love Is Nails

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,890 views

    C. S. Lewis captured the Cross event in a poem: "Love’s as hard as nails, Love is nails: Blunt, thick, hammered through The medial nerves of One Who, having made us, knew The ...read more

  • The Power Of Love

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 6,609 views

    The Power of Love Newspaper columnist and Minister George Crane tell of a wife who came into his office full of hatred toward her husband. “I do not only want to get rid of him; I want to get even. Before I divorce him, I want to hurt him as much as he has me.” Dr Crane suggested an ingenious ...read more

  • A Center Of Love

    Contributed by Chris Jordan on Sep 30, 2007
     | 2,443 views

    QUOTE: “When love, acceptance and forgiveness prevail, the church becomes what Jesus was in the world: a center of love, designed for the healing of broken people, and a force for God… One of the greatest services a church can offer a community is to provide a place for people to be brought to ...read more

  • Ideal Love

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,022 views

    Ideal Love a. There was a Dad who took his kids to do a little shopping. As they drove up, they spotted an eighteen-wheeler parked with a big sign on it that said, "Petting Zoo." The kids jumped up in a rush and asked, "Daddy, Daddy. Can we go? Please. Please. Can we go?" "Sure," He said giving ...read more

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