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  • COREY HOWSE avatar

    What Does Love Have To Do With It

    Contributed by Corey Howse on Feb 11, 2005
    based on 11 ratings
     | 12,163 views

    This sermon challenges the love we have for God and helps us identify with our purpose in sharing our ministries.

    WHAT DOES LOVE HAVE TO DO WITH IT Tina Turner sung a song some years ago, and the title was “What does love have to do with it. “ Jonathan Swift the author of Gulliver’s Travels says “We have just enough religion to make us hate, and not enough religion to make us love one another”. This ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The King Is In Town ... Maybe?

    Contributed by Gary Stebbins on Aug 30, 2006
    based on 6 ratings
     | 1,960 views

    How desperately do we want to see the Kingdom of God established in our lives and in our community, as it is in heaven?

    The King Is In Town … Maybe? Space Coast Prayer Network Meeting Review Jackson Senyonga- Uganda- brought an Apostolic Word- a word that establishes truth in an area. 1 Cor 3:10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is ...read more

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    Denomination: Charismatic

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    Love Never Fails

    Contributed by Colin Coombs on Sep 3, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,313 views

    A sermon suitable for a wedding, with an emphasis on the working out of love in our lives of the ’rules for living’ given in the 13th Chapter of First Corinthians

    LOVE NEVER FAILS If I could write a book in which I could give a guaranteed method for a happy, prosperous, successful marriage, then I am sure that it would be a ‘best seller’. However, one of the problems in marriage is people! Of course, we cannot have a marriage without people, and this is ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Jim Kane avatar

    The Obedience Of Love; The Love Of Obedience

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 4, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,497 views

    Fourth sermon in the summer 2006 Series, “Being God’s People by Serving, Obeying, and Giving.”

    What is love? Love has always been a big topic of discussion between us humans. Much is said about love and much is written about love. However, it seems to me that we have never been able to give a satisfactory answer to the question, ‘What is love?’ (1) But we are often able to describe love ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

  • Isaac Butterworth avatar

    The Importance Of Love

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Sep 7, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,372 views

    Love is important because it is essential, expressive, and eternal.

    THE IMPORTANCE OF LOVE 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 (NRSV) 1/ If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2/ And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Rodney V Johnson avatar

    Life Is So Good

    Contributed by Rodney V Johnson on Aug 28, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,010 views

    Appreciating how god we have it in Christ.

    Life Is So Good Introduction I was reading an article in a magazine about a man named George Dawson. You may have heard about him. In 1998 he enrolled in a class to learn how to read and write, he was 98 years old. Four years later he published the story of his life. He was the grandson of ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Love In Bloom Series

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 25, 2008
     | 2,611 views

    Love varies with the persons we love and our relationship to them.

    Love in Bloom (topical) 1. Family love is unique but challenging. From Reader’s Digest, we read, It’s every airplane passenger’s nightmare -- getting stuck near a crying baby. I was manning the ticket counter at a busy airport when the sound of a sobbing infant filled the air. As the next ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Brian Bill avatar

    For Better And Forever Series

    Contributed by Brian Bill on Dec 13, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
     | 15,456 views

    In the famous “love passage” that is read at most weddings, 1 Corinthians 13 helps us understand what love is and what it looks like in daily life. Love is not primarily a feeling but an action. The kind of love that you and I are called to demonstrate

    For Better and Forever 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 Rev. Brian Bill 12/4/05 Pastor Dick sure did a great job preaching on parenting last week! Isn’t it a blessing that both he and Pastor Jeff are such effective preachers? During the sermon I was convicted of the many ways that I fall short and was ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • David Owens avatar

    Faithful In Marriage Series

    Contributed by David Owens on Dec 2, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,952 views

    Marriage is hard work, but God can help us improve our marriages.

    A. I hope you have been encouraged and inspired as we have been addressing the topic of faithfulness this fall. 1. During the first four sermons of the series I tried to drive home the point that God is faithful, and that our faithfulness is to be in response to His faithfulness. 2. I have also ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    The Life Of Love Series

    Contributed by Rev. Matthew Parker on Jan 23, 2005
    based on 8 ratings
     | 5,769 views

    We are called to live a life of love. How can learn to do this. Here are four habits to develop to grow as a Christian.

    Sermon for CATM - January 23, 2005 - “The Life of Love” Genesis 12:1-3; 1 Corinthians 13:11-13; Ephesians 4:32- 5:2 Faith, hope and love. What remains, we are told in Holy Scripture, after all is said and done, is love. And we are encouraged by scripture to live now as though we are ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • JOHN BAGGETT avatar

    That's What Love Is

    Contributed by John Baggett on Jan 25, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
     | 4,266 views

    How Does Love really behave according to God. This message seeks to show the real way and the right way love should be from marriage to brotherly love to parent and child. There is someting here to speak to it all.

    That’s What Love is 1 Cor 13:1-8 Where does Love come from? This time of year we might think the florist is where love comes from in the form of a dozen red roses. Why I was talking to Sean Smith (one of our teenage boys in the church) just yesterday and he said a friend of his had paid ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Jody Brock avatar

    The Importance Of Love

    Contributed by Jody Brock on Jan 26, 2007
     | 4,622 views

    Paul stated that love is greater than faith and hope. He explained the uselessness of gifts, knowledge, faith, benevolence, and sacrifices without the first fruit of the spirit, which is love. This sermon examines the importance of love according to Paul

    The Importance of Love 1 Corinthians 13: 1-13 INTRO: Paul stated that love is greater that faith and hope. He explained the uselessness of gifts, knowledge, faith, benevolence, and sacrifices without the first fruit, which is love (Galatians 5:12). It is said that Paul in this chapter “rises on ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Joanna Beveridge avatar

    Spiritual Adolescence

    Contributed by Joanna Beveridge on Jan 27, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,196 views

    Just as we need to grow physically, so we need to grow spiritually

    Tonight I’m going to start by telling you a joke. A door-to-door salesman is selling encyclopaedias. He knocks on the door of a house and when the man of the house answers, the salesman begins to expound the virtues of his product. He hasn’t got very far into his sales pitch when the prospective ...read more

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    Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

  • Revd. Martin Dale avatar

    Not Your Soppy Sentimental Love

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jan 27, 2007
     | 3,307 views

    The four words for love with a focus on Agape Lve

    NR 27-01-07 1 Cor 13 Story: I came across this true story - that happened during the Holocaust of the Second World War. Solomon Rosenberg, his wife and their 2 sons were arrested, together with his mother and father for the crime of being Jews. They were placed in a Nazi concentration camp. ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

  • Mark Eberly avatar

    The Labor Of Love

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 4, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
     | 6,055 views

    Loving God and loving others is hard work. However, hard it is at times, it is still the way that God has created us to live. We’ll look at what this Labor of Love is and what it is not.

    The Labor of Love 1 Corinthians 13 August 31, 2008 Labor Day. Originally a day set aside to honor the American worker. Now it is really a holiday or three day weekend to mark the end of the summer season. According to the movement of the earth around the sun, we still have a couple of weeks of ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God