In Sermon Illustrations: "Pure Love" showing 1-20 of 7,726

Pure Love Brings Joy

Contributed by Christopher Sweeney on May 19, 2017

Many of you may have experienced this but I have from my two nephews and my time in youth ministry that there are times when you are having the worst days and then a child will run up to you and give you a hug or say I love you and everything goes away. Why, why is it that a hug can help erase the ...read more

Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:16, Philippians 4:4

Tags: Love, Joy

Pure Love And Suspicion Cannot Dwell Together: ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter ...read more

Tags: Christian Love

Lovers Of The Cross

Contributed by Rev. Dan Hesko on Jul 1, 2017

Thomas a kempis wrote in the Imitation of Christ Jesus has many who love His Kingdom in Heaven, but few who bear His Cross (Luke 14:27). He has many who desire comfort, but few who desire suffering. He finds many to share His feast, but few His fasting. All desire to rejoice with Him, but few are ...read more

Scripture: Luke 14:27

Tags: The Cross, Pure Love, Bearing The Cross

Denomination: Catholic

He Loves You With And Everlasting, Pure, ...

Contributed by Thomas Donelan on May 19, 2010

He loves you with and everlasting, pure, unconditional love but God’s holiness demands sin be paid for. As the old Fram Oil Filter commercial use to say, "You can pay me now, or you can pay me later." We can bow now before Jesus ...read more

Tags: Jesus Christ

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Dogs Love Their Friends And Bite Their Enemies, ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love ...read more

Tags: Family

The More We Love Our Friends, The Less We ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing ...read more

Tags: Compassion

Ultimate Love, Complete Humility  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2002

ULTIMATE LOVE, COMPLETE HUMILITY Only one act of pure love, unsullied by any taint of ulterior motive, has ever been performed in the history of the world, namely the self-giving of God in Christ on the cross for undeserving sinners. That is why, if we are looking for a definition of love, we ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 2:5-8

Tags: Christian Love, Forgiveness In Jesus

Pure As Ivory  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 25, 2002

PURE AS IVORY Early in her career, adult film star Marilyn Chambers appeared on Ivory Snow boxes, holding a sweet baby. As her screen popularity in X-rated movies grew, Ivory sought out a cover girl that better reflected its image of 99 44/100% purity. Are you a good cover model for God’s ...read more

Tags: God's Sovereign Will, Holiness

Not Pure Enough

Contributed by Jeff Strite on Feb 6, 2011

NOT PURE ENOUGH Back in the 1600's a man named Roger Williams who left England and came over to join the Puritans. He was a very gifted preacher and many churches asked him to come fill their pulpits. But Williams had one major flaw - an overwhelming desire to have purist doctrine he could manage. ...read more

Tags: Purity

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Blessed Are The Pure

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 27, 2011

BLESSED ARE THE PURE A couple of years ago we went to Ottawa as my wife Joanne had some work to do there, so Thomas and I tagged along to check out our nation’s capital. One of the places we visited was the historic Canadian mint – where money is made – and we had a tour but unfortunately no free ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:8

Tags: Sermon On The Mount

Pure White

Contributed by Joe Bertone on Jul 23, 2012

PURE WHITE A little girl went to the countryside on holiday. The cabin where she stayed was next to a grassy hillside on which sheep grazed. She had never seen sheep before. The girl could look from the front door of the cottage and see the sheep milling around on the slope of green. She exclaimed ...read more

Tags: Condition, Compare, God's Standard, Sin General

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Is Anyone Pure?

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007

Introduction - Is anyone pure? Charles Swindoll in "Growing Deep in the Christian Life," writes about a man who bought fried chicken dinners for himself and his date late one afternoon. The attendant at the fast food outlet, however, inadvertently gave him the proceeds from the day’s business - a ...read more

Tags: Sermon On The Mount

Some Emotions Dont Make A Lot Of Noise. Its ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Some emotions dont make a lot of noise. Its hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some ...read more

Tags: Christian Love

Keep The Springs Pure  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on May 8, 2012

KEEP THE SPRINGS PURE The family’s water supply came from a spring just a few feet from the house. The pure, cold, sweet water bubbled up through a large pipe about the size of a barrel that had been sunk in the ground. One morning two huge frogs were found in the spring. No one wanted to drink ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 4:20-27

Tags: Heart

Remove The Hate — Be Pure  PRO

Contributed by Ken Pell on Mar 30, 2013

REMOVE THE HATE -- BE PURE "And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood (Hebrews 13:2)." Three years ago, Chris Simpson led a white pride march. Two years ago, he abandoned the white supremacist movement. This past April (2012), he was ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 13:2

Tags: Holiness

Denomination: Nazarene

Sacrificial Love

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008

SACRIFICIAL LOVE March 2008. A Starbucks barista (server), 51-year-old Sandie Andersen, donated a kidney to a regular, longtime customer, in order to save her life. 55-year-old Annamarie Ausnes stated during a talk with Andersen that she needed a kidney transplant. The only problem was that her ...read more

Tags: Character

God Is Not Discoverable Or Demonstrable By Purely ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 11, 2002

God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientifically minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply means that the wrong ...read more

It Is Safe To Tell The Pure In Heart That They ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only ...read more

Tags: Christian Values

The Man Whose Heart Is Pure

Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 9, 2011

THE MAN WHOSE HEART IS PURE Charles Spurgeon: “The man whose heart is pure, will be able to see God in nature. When the heart is clean, he will hear God's footfall everywhere in the garden of the earth in the cool of the day. He will hear God's voice in the tempest, sounding in peal on peal from ...read more

Tags: Purity

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Cheerfulness Means A Contented Spirit; A Pure ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"Cheerfulness means a contented spirit; a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity, a generous ...read more

Tags: Joy