Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jul 21, 2008
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TOO BUSY TO LOVE
A father and his young daughter were great friends and much in each other's company. Then the father noted a change in his daughter. If he went for a walk, she excused herself from going. He grieved about it, but could not understand.
When his birthday came, she presented him
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 4, 2008
The Labor of Love is Not a Duty
It is not something we have to do. It is not even something we ought to do. Loving God as we worship can never be done because we know we ought to do it. Now sometimes we need to fake it until we make it. Sometimes we need to do it even if we don't feel like it.
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 19, 2008
Love Tore Down The Wall
Some years ago, a couple decided they could not live together anymore. They separated and started divorce proceedings.
Dr. J. Mike Minnix, Editor, PastorLife.com.
Through their lawyers, they agreed to meet at the home and divide the property. As they went through the home
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OVERUSE OF THE WORD "LOVE"
Max Lucado states from his book 3:16, "Love. We’ve all but worn out this word. This morning I used love to describe my feelings toward my wife and toward peanut butter. Far from identical emotions. I never proposed to a jar of peanut butter (though I have let one sit on
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Apr 14, 2010
THE LOVE FOR GOD'S HOUSE
No wonder the Psalmist longed for God’s House. It is sad that many people, even some who claim to know Christ, take so little interest in His church-—the Church He purchased with His own blood.
Some people only show up on important occasions in life. The only time the
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 10, 2010
I Love You Enough
“You don’t love me!” How many times have your kids laid that one on you? Someday when my children are old enough to understand the logic motivation [of] a mother, I’ll tell them:
ü I loved you enough to bug you about where you were going and what time you would get home.
ü I
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Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 8, 2010
Can Love Last a Lifetime?
“Psychology Today Magazine” had a very timely an article in their June 2010 volume. The title of the article was “Can Love Last a Lifetime?” and their answer was Yes! Here is a thoroughly secular source that has recently changed its position and discovered that love need
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Contributed by J.d. Tutell on Jun 21, 2011
EATING VEGETABLES FOR LOVE
When I was growing up and living at home, my parents couldn’t get me to eat vegetables for anything. They not only tried threats, they followed through. It didn’t work.
Then I met Linda, we started dating, her parents had me over for dinner. She would look at me
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Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 29, 2011
THE MORE LOVING ONE
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.
How should we like it if stars were to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot
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JESUS LOVES ME
"Jesus Loves Me" is one of the most well-known Christian hymns. This hymn was originally a poem that was included in a novel. The poem was spoken to a dying child to bring them comfort. A musician later added the music, and since 1860 it has become one of the most well-known
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Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Oct 28, 2011
YOUR FIRST LOVE
Jesus' first remedy for the Church in Ephesus was too "REMEMBER." Rev. 2:5 says, "Remember therefore from where you are fallen..."
Remember what it was like during the honeymoon stage? Go back in your mind to a time when passion prevailed in your spiritual life. Relive it and
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Contributed by Perry Greene on Jan 4, 2012
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GOD'S PERSISTENT LOVE
For more than 40 years, each week a shy Welshman went to his neighbor’s door and slipped a love note underneath. Because of an argument years before, she refused to speak to the man. Finally, after writing 2184 love letters with no response of any kind, the 74-year-old man
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