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  • Donnie Martin avatar

    Love Is The Key

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Feb 9, 2009
    based on 19 ratings
     | 17,337 views

    Love is the key to all we do in the Christian life. It is the key to our ministry; the key to our relationships; and the key to our victory.

    Love Is The Key Text: 1 Cor.13: 13 Intro: Have you ever thought about how easy it is for people to misrepresent themselves to others? I suppose a certain amount of that is normal under certain conditions. For instance, I may feel like death warmed over. But if I’m walking through the mall, and ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Finer Points Of Love (Part 2)

    Contributed by Tim Patrick on Feb 10, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,976 views

    This study examines characteristics 4-7 of the fifteeen qualities of love found in I Corinthians 13.

    Last week we began a series entitled the “Finer Points Of Love.” We are studying the fifteen characteristics of love that are listed in I Cor. 13:4-7. The first three are: love is patient, love is kind, and love is not jealous. Today we take a brief look at the next four. Quality number 4: love ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Funeral - Prayer Champion

    Contributed by Thomas Bowen on Feb 12, 2009
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     | 7,651 views

    Older lady with a special gift of prayer. Her relationship with God wittnessed healings and joy that are amazing.

    Funeral – Mrs. _______ We have come to the moment in the service where I am expected to say some nice things about _____. I need to share with you that finding something nice to say is harder than you might think. Please don’t mis-understand. The only reason it is hard is because there is so ...read more

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    Denomination: Congregational

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    What Is True Love?

    Contributed by Casey Warford on Feb 14, 2009
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    How can we as humans know what true love is? God’s love for humanity guides us to understanding true love.

    “What Is Love?” 12/15/2009 A.M. I. 1 Corinthians 13 A. We can get a greater understanding of what true love is from understanding God’s love for us. 1. God’s love is complete. a. Vs. 1-3 - The love of God is the key ingredient that completes the recipe of all that we attempt to do in our ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Howard Strickland avatar

    Love Is A Verb

    Contributed by Howard Strickland on Feb 15, 2009
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    Love is willing to undergo or endure long. It’s compassionate and generous, it’s humble, open, gentle, thinks good of others, rejoices in righteousness, open, simple child like faith, believes in the success of others, doesn’t give up, love is a survivor

    Love is a Verb I Corinthians 13:4-8a 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 ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    The Finer Points Of Love (Part 3)

    Contributed by Tim Patrick on Feb 16, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,662 views

    This study examines characteristics 8-11 of the fifteeen qualities of love found in I Corinthians 13.

    The past two weeks we have been studying the fifteen characteristics of love that are listed in I Cor. 13. We have covered the first seven. These are challenging! Love requires hard work and God’s enabling. Maybe you heard about the guy who fell in love with an opera singer. He fell in love ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    True Love Waits - Youth Abstinence

    Contributed by C Jordan on Feb 16, 2009
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    True Love Waits is an international campaign designed to challenge students to be sexually abstinent until marriage. This messages talks about the benefits of abstinence.

    TRUE LOVE WAITS (February 2009 – Beausejour Church Youth Rally – Pastor Chris Jordan) WHAT IS TRUE LOVE WAITS? True Love Waits is a campaign designed to challenge students to remain sexually abstinent until marriage. 2.5 – 3 million students have made the True Love Waits Pledge. When I hosted ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

  • Ajai Prakash avatar

    The Love Deal

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Feb 18, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,560 views

    Our society confuses LOVE and LUST. Unlike lust, God’s kind of love is directed toward others, not inward toward ourselves. This kind of love goes against our natural inclinations. It is natural to love them that love us, but it is supernatural to love th

    Opening illustration: Newspaper columnist and minister George Crane tells of a wife who came into his office full of hatred toward her husband. "I do not only want to get rid of him, I want to get even. Before I divorce him, I want to hurt him as much as he has me." Dr. Crane suggested an ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Tim Patrick avatar

    The Finer Points Of Love (Part 4) Series

    Contributed by Tim Patrick on Feb 23, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,988 views

    The sermon examines the fifteen qualities of love found in I Cor. 13:4-7.

    Today we look at the last four qualities of love found in I Cor. 13:4-7. Instead of examining these four individually I want to make three connecting statements about love. These three statements connect the four and give clarity since they are all interrelated. The first statement is: Love has ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Greatest Gift

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jul 21, 2008
    based on 6 ratings
     | 9,560 views

    This message explains the meaning of real love.

    Text: “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love” (I John 4:8). The text tells us that “God is love.” We have heard these words many times, but have we given much thought to what they really mean? Is it worldly to believe that “God is love?” I believe the world’s ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

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    Love - The Greatest Of All Series

    Contributed by David Owens on Jul 21, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,855 views

    To really understand the "love chapter," a person has to read it in context. All the problems the Corinthians were facing in the church could be corrected by love.

    Introduction: A. One day an elderly woman and her little grandson, whose face was sprinkled with bright freckles, spent the day at the zoo. 1. Lots of children were waiting in line to get their face painted by a local artist who was decorating them with tiger paws. 2. A girl in line turned to the ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Love's Dimensions

    Contributed by Daniel Habben on Jul 21, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,346 views

    Paul describes love’s immeasurabley wide- unassuming-forever dimensions.

    So Sonja and Mike, the two of you are “in love.” Can you tell me what that means exactly? Is being “in love” like being “in Hong Kong”? Is love a place? Does it have an address? Is being “in love” like being “in a tree”? I ask this because when couples falter in love they often say they’ve “fallen ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Mark Eberly avatar

    The Labor Of Love

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 4, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
     | 6,067 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

  • Bill Sullivan avatar

    Thirty Years And Still Learning

    Contributed by Bill Sullivan on Sep 6, 2008
     | 2,506 views

    Longevity in relationships leads to learning, and as followers of Christ, we are to be learners (disciples)

    Thirty Years and Still Learning TCF Sermon August 10, 2008 We’re in a season of weddings – have you noticed? Several of our young people have tied the knot in the last year, and some in recent weeks, – and at least two of our, shall we say, older ones, too. And there are still more weddings to ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    The Godly Portrait Of Marriage, Pt. 4

    Contributed by Dave Kinney on Sep 27, 2008
    based on 16 ratings
     | 3,235 views

    Do American marriages really believe that love never fails? Is this verse out of the realm of reality in America? If American marriages end in divorce, does that mean that “love does fail”? How would you answer these 3 questions?

    “Motivated Marriages” 1 Corinthians 13 A funeral service was being held for a woman who had just passed away. At the end of the service the pall bearers were carrying the casket out of the chapel when they accidently hit the wall and it jarred the casket pretty hard. Then all of the sudden there ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist