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True Love Reigns
Contributed by Charles Cunningham on Feb 25, 2020 (message contributor)
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1. True Love Reigns Sermon I: Let God's Love Reign In Your Life
Contributed on Feb 25, 2020
To love someone truly is to say "I love you" by doing what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, for as long as it needs to be done - all in the long-term best interests of the one(s) loved.
LET GOD’S LOVE REIGN IN YOUR LIFE With the dawning of the Christian era, the mystery of history was solved. No longer did believers in the LORD God wonder why we are here and whether there will be a hereafter. ...read more
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2. True Love Reigns Sermon Ii: Where Love Reigns, Encouragement Abounds
Contributed on Feb 25, 2020
To truly love others is to encourage friends in the faith to accept each other in Christ regardless of cultural differences, and to help one another grow toward maturity for the sake of Christ who loved us all and gave Himself for us.
WHEN LOVE REIGNS, ENCOURAGEMENT ABOUNDS An elderly widow, restricted in her activities and confined to her home, was nonetheless eager to serve Christ. After praying about it, she wondered if she could bring blessing to others by doing one ...read more
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3. True Love Reigns Sermon Iii: True Love Forgives - As Needed, As Prescribed
Contributed on Feb 25, 2020
To truly love others is to forgive our brothers and sisters their trespasses against us as freely as God has forgiven our trespasses against Him. Truly forgiven folks become truly forgiving folks!
TRUE LOVE FORGIVES - AS NEEDED . . . AS PRESCRIBED How often have you gone to see a doctor and come away with a prescribed medication to be taken as needed? Thirty days later you go back to the pharmacy for a refill. You repeat the process ...read more
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4. True Love Reigns Sermon Iv: In His Service, Love Bears Burdens Freely
Contributed on Feb 25, 2020
To truly love others is to reduce theological knowledge to its lowest common denominator by bearing one another's burdens and so fulfill "the law of Christ" - the one that matters most.
IN HIS SERVICE, LOVE BEARS BURDENS FREELY “In His Service” is how some of us in Christian ministry sign letters and communications intended for church members and non-members alike . . . how we who are called by His Name are expected by ...read more
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5. True Love Reigns Sermon V: Love Bears Burdens Freely And Humbly
Contributed on Feb 25, 2020
To truly love others - also, oneself - is to cultivate humility by which to share some burdens of others, shoulder some burdens of our own, shed some burdens we have no business carrying.
LOVE BEARS BURDENS FREELY AND HUMBLY A woman lost her son in battle, and could find no comfort. She went to a wise counselor and asked what to do. Said he: “Go find a home that has no sorrow, bring back a mustard seed, and God will ...read more
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6. True Love Reigns Sermon Vi: Where True Love Is, There Is Acceptance Of Persons
Contributed on Feb 25, 2020
To truly love others is to deal with differences in a Christlike manner by loving persons into becoming persons God would have them to become. Remember: Accepting persons does not always mean approving practices.
WHERE THERE IS LOVE, THERE IS ACCEPTANCE “Thank God! We don’t have to like everybody! But we are supposed to love everybody!” Thus spoke a minister whose sermon had to do with the love relationship Christ taught us to cultivate with ...read more