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  • Steve Shepherd avatar

    This Is Love

    Contributed by Steve Shepherd on Feb 9, 2001
    based on 179 ratings
     | 23,905 views

    The apostle Paul describes the "most excellent way" of love.

    THIS IS LOVE I Corinthians 13:1-13 INTRO.- ILL.- Here are some children’s ideas about love. - Glenn, age 7 - If falling love is anything like learning how to spell, I don’t want to do it. It takes too long. (loving people takes a long time. It should take a lifetime. We should love people ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Unfailing Love

    Contributed by Charles Mallory on Feb 9, 2001
    based on 151 ratings
     | 11,164 views

    Learning about the power behind agape love.

    WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE WORD "LIFE," THE WORD "LOVE" IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ABSTRACT TERM IN THE ENTIRE BIBLE. LOVE, OF COURSE, WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ELEMENTS OF THE TEACHING OF JESUS. LOVE IS WHAT DESCRIBES THE NATURE OF GOD, PROVIDES THE BASIS OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS, AND MANIFESTS THE ...read more

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    Denomination: Free Methodist

  • Ricky Burke avatar

    What Is Love? Series

    Contributed by Ricky Burke on Feb 22, 2001
    based on 224 ratings
     | 28,005 views

    This is the first sermon in a series of messages from I Corinthians 13.

    Sermon: What Is Love? Sermon Series: How to Improve Your Love-life. Text: I Cor. 13:4-7 This past Valentine’s Day consumers spent millions of dollars to tell that someone special, "I love you." But what is love? We talk about it, sing about it, and search for it, but exactly what is it? ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Doug Johnston avatar

    I'll Give You... Series

    Contributed by Doug Johnston on Mar 7, 2001
    based on 37 ratings
     | 3,305 views

    When we decide to love our families with the love 1 Corinthians 13 describes, many of our relationship problems fade.

    I’ll Give You... 4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • James Dunn avatar

    Growing Pains

    Contributed by James Dunn on Feb 11, 2002
    based on 61 ratings
     | 5,250 views

    Growing pains are a natural part of our growth process. The same is true of the growth process of every Christian. In this message, Pastor Dunn outlines for us the four stages of growth in the life of a Christian.

    Intro: Dr. Paul W. Brand, the noted leprosy expert who was chief of the rehabilitation branch of the Leprosarium in Carville, Lousiana, had a frightening experience one night when he thought he had contracted leprosy. Dr. Brand arrived in London one night after an exhausting transatlantic ocean ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Wayde Wilson avatar

    Pure Love In An Impure World

    Contributed by Wayde Wilson on Feb 13, 2002
    based on 64 ratings
     | 9,447 views

    Very few people in our society today understand what love is.

    Psalm 51:10 - "Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me." Valentine’s week is a good time to talk about what love is and what it isn’t. We have in America, what I call a serious "anti-love epidemic." We’re sick for the lack of real love! VERY FEW PEOPLE IN OUR SOCIETY ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Funeral Sermon

    Contributed by Joseph Wallis on Feb 22, 2002
    based on 995 ratings
     | 357,837 views

    General funeral for a faithful Christian

    FUNERAL MESSAGE FOR A CHRISTIAN TEXT - Deut. 29:29 - "The secret things belong unto the Lord our God but those things which are revealed belong unto us." Death is not an easy thing to accept. Even under the best of circumstances, death is a terrible thing. Nature has it’s seasons but death can ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Wedding Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Feb 24, 2002
    based on 217 ratings
     | 98,796 views

    A unique sermon on marriage using the wedding ceremony to talk about God’s kind of love in marriage. Well recieved.

    (This was a ceremony to celebrate marriage. The sanctuary was decorated as for a wedding, with a trellis at the foyer, youth escorting people to their seats, and a set of candelabras on stage. We opened the sermon with Wedding March being played. As the music was played, two of our young men lit ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Matthew Rogers avatar

    Sharing Struggles Openly Series

    Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Feb 25, 2002
    based on 86 ratings
     | 4,296 views

    To experience authentic biblical community, I must let people reach the deepest places in my heart; places not often or easily reached.

    The Safest Place on Earth – Part 3 February 24, 2002 Big Idea: To experience authentic biblical community, I must let people reach the deepest places in my heart; places not often or easily reached. INTRODUCTION ILLUS – Henri Nouwen, the widely read Christian author, was a professor at Yale ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    The Healing Power Of Forgiveness In Marriage Series

    Contributed by Eric Sellgren on Feb 26, 2002
    based on 77 ratings
     | 5,484 views

    Is divorce inevitable, or could there be another way? A Sermon in series on RELATIONSHIPS.

    Some time ago a friend of mine held a "Celebration of Marriage" Service in his Church. He sent out invitations to 150 couples that had been married in his Church in the previous eight years. "Only one couple came to the Service" he said. "By far the largest number of replies came from the ...read more

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    Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

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    Love The Great Propellor

    Contributed by John Gullick on May 27, 2002
    based on 14 ratings
     | 2,452 views

    A sermon that suggests that when we grasp the love of the Father for us personally we will be propelled out into the world to express that love.

    Love - The Great propellor. 1 Corinthians chapter 13 - Love never gives up Take a great Airoplane - space craft or Ship - in itself it is nothing a mere curiosity. But switch on the engines - engage the rockets and the curiosity becomes a vessel with a destination. 5-4-3-2-1 - zero we have ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Wade Martin Hughes, Sr avatar

    #1fruit Of Spirit Love Series

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on May 29, 2002
    based on 34 ratings
     | 7,228 views

    We begin to study the Fruit of the Spirit, #1LOVE.

    #1 STUDY OF THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT: LOVE By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com TEXT: Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23. Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. LOVE NEVER FAILS! 1 CORINTHIANS 13:8 1 ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • John Lee avatar

    What Is Love?

    Contributed by John Lee on May 30, 2002
    based on 575 ratings
     | 41,114 views

    Paul clearly defines wht love is in I Cor. 13. Are we living a life of biblical Love?

    WHAT IS LOVE? I Corinthians 13 Paul lists fifteen characteristics of Christian love. 1. Love is patient. The Greek word (makrothumein) means patience with people and not patience with circumstances. It is the word used of the man who is wronged and who has the power to avenge himself but will ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Paul Fritz avatar

    How To Become Mature In Christ Like Love – I Cor. 13

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 3, 2002
    based on 44 ratings
     | 9,675 views

    How to Become Mature in Christ like Love – I Cor. 13 & Eph. 4:15

    How to Become Mature in Christ like Love – I Cor. 13 Eph. 4:15 – Speaking the truth in love let us grow up in all aspects into Christ. We live in a world that subtly influences our assumptions and perspectives about love. Recognize that we have to overcome the world’s way of thinking about love. ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Stephen Funderburk avatar

    Seven Deadly Sins: Envy

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Mar 12, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,632 views

    this is an ugly sin--it is often called the green eyed monster of envy.

    Envy--Jealousy Jealousy is wishing you had what someone else has, but even worse is envy, wishing they didn’t have it at all. Most fights, quarrels, and strife in life comes from this terrible sin. It is one sin that no one will admit to, because it is such a wicked thing. Envy- a rejoicing over ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God