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  • Your First Love

    Contributed by Charles Worth on May 16, 2009
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    YOUR FIRST LOVE Remember your first love? That innocent time in life when you had fallen "head over heels" for someone? Knowing it is the right thing to do you went to her/him and confessed your undying love; only to be told how much they "like" you as a friend. Jesus must feel that way at times. ...read more

  • God's Love Is Everything

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 18, 2009
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     | 3,817 views

    GOD'S LOVE IS EVERYTHING The Pope tells us that "For the Church, instructed by the Gospel, charity is everything because, as Saint John teaches (cf. 1 Jn 4:8, 16) and as I recalled in my first Encyclical Letter, 'God is love'...: everything has its origin in God’s love, everything is shaped by it, ...read more

  • I Love This Book

    Contributed by Bob Marcaurelle on Dec 8, 2009
     | 1,548 views

    I LOVE THIS BOOK Dr. Vance Havner says the Bible begins in a garden (Gen.3) and ends in a garden (Rev. 21-22). He says there is no devil, no sin, and no sorrow in the first two chapters of the Bible or in the last two ...read more

  • The Love For God's House

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Apr 14, 2010
     | 3,812 views

    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 ...read more

  • Can Love Last A ...

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 8, 2010
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    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 ...read more

  • Linus On Love For People

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2010
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    LINUS ON LOVE FOR PEOPLE Perhaps you've seen this Peanuts cartoon: Linus announces to his cranky sister, Lucy, that he's going to be a doctor. "You, a doctor?" she asks. "How can you be a doctor? You don't love mankind." Linus replies, "I do too love mankind. It's ...read more

  • Love That Looks Up Is ...

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
     | 1,755 views

    "Love that looks up is adoration. Love that looks across is affection. Love that ...read more

  • We Require Loving

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 20, 2011
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    WE REQUIRE LOVING A little girl was making but poor progress toward recovery, though the ailment had been checked and there seemed to be no reason why she should not rapidly improve. But it didn’t happen, and the doctor in charge was keenly interested to know why. She was a very sensitive child, ...read more

  • God's Persistent Love  PRO

    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 ...read more

  • The Love Of God Explained

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Jan 10, 2012
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    THE LOVE OF GOD EXPLAINED A certain medieval monk announced he would be preaching next Sunday evening on "The Love of God." As the shadows fell and the light ceased to come in through the cathedral windows, the congregation gathered. In the darkness of the altar, the monk lighted a candle and ...read more

  • About God's Love

    Contributed by David Tack on Feb 25, 2012
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    ABOUT GOD'S LOVE Some Things about God’s Love: - Love is not just a virtue of God. It is God Himself. - Love is not something God begins. - God does not “extend His energy to maintain” love. - The love of God is as eternal as the nature of God. - The love of God is ...read more

  • Labor Prompted By Love

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Mar 7, 2012
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    LABOR PROMPTED BY LOVE Bernard Newman tells how once he stayed in a Bulgarian peasant’s house. All the time he was there the daughter was stitching away at a dress. He said to her, "Don’t you ever get tired of that eternal sewing?" "Oh no!" she said. "You see, this is my ...read more

  • Love Your Neighbor

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Apr 16, 2012
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    LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR I stepped outside my hotel room yesterday and saw a thin elderly woman taking small steps in a circle. She seemed to be mumbling. Our eyes connected. She said, "They left me here and I don't know where they have gone. I don't know what room I am in." I held out my hand. She ...read more

  • Life, Love And Grief

    Contributed by John Mcphail on Oct 23, 2013
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    Life, Love and Grief "Love is the fabric of a life well lived. Grief is the tapestry of a ...read more

  • Jesus Loves Mothers

    Contributed by David Roundtree on May 13, 2017
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    John 19:25-27 "Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His Mother, and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw His Mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His Mother, 'Woman, behold your son!' Then He said to the disciple, ...read more

  • Love For Christ And People

    Contributed by Roy Fowler on Sep 13, 2020
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    In the early years, Circuit riders were most often lay preachers without formal education. They were young, poor, and, for the most part, single. Traveling thousands of miles a year. Though circuit riders eventually represented many different denominations but none were more aggressive or ...read more

  • Love Gives Itself

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Thomas Merton: “Without love, almsgiving is no more important an action than brushing your hair or washing your hands, and the Pharisees had just as elaborate a ritual for those things as they had for alms, too, because all these things were prescribed by law, and had to be done so. “But love ...read more

  • If You Love Me

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,012 views

    If you are ever going to love me, Love me now, while I can know The sweet and tender feelings Which from true affection flow. Love me now While I am living. Do not wait until I’m gone And then have it chiseled in marble, Sweet words on ice-cold stone. If you have tender thoughts of me, Please ...read more

  • The Love That Brought Him

    Contributed by Frederick Baker Ii on Sep 3, 2007
     | 1,093 views

    Because the way was steep and long, and through a strange and lonely land, God placed upon my lips a song And put a lantern in my hand. -- Joyce Kilmer, quoted by W. Frank ...read more

  • Love For Our Neighbor

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2008
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     | 3,899 views

    Love for Our Neighbor John Vianney, 18th Century Pastor, is quoted as saying, “Love for our neighbor consists of three things: to desire the greater good of everyone; to do what good we can when we can; to bear, excuse, and hide other’s faults. The kind of love that Jesus is ...read more