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  • Steve Shepherd avatar

    How We Know Love Series

    Contributed by Steve Shepherd on Aug 3, 2010
    based on 31 ratings
     | 18,612 views

    How we know what true love is: 1- By understanding Jesus’ death 2- By sharing material possessions 3- By resting in God’s presence

    INTRO.- The movie, Love Story, came out in 1970 and starred Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw. This was when MacGraw was 32 years old and O’Neal was only 29. The film is considered one of the most romantic movies of all time by the American Film Institute. Harvard Law student Oliver ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Loving Others Series

    Contributed by Mark Elkins on Jan 27, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 9,003 views

    What does it mean to 'BE THE CHURCH?"

    LOVING OTHERS 1 John 3:14-20 If you knew that Jesus was coming back tomorrow, what would you do different? Would you change how you live? If so what? Is there someone that you would repay? What would you do? This was asked to a Clear Creek class. One student said that he would immediately go ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Chad Moore avatar

    The Way Of The Father Series

    Contributed by Chad Moore on Apr 11, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,963 views

    The Prodigal God prod⋅i⋅gal [prod-i-guhl] - wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure. You think you know the story of “The Prodigal Son”? Think again.

    prod⋅i⋅gal [prod-i-guhl] - wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure. What is the Christian life all about? 1. Knowing the heart of the Father …But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Children Of God

    Contributed by Greg Nance on Apr 26, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,556 views

    God’s love, sin, brotherhood, and brotherly love all come together in this chapter. John says four times, "This is how we know..."

    (The audio version of this concludes better) What does this chapter say about Children of God? The Old Testament describes a privileged relationship between God and his chosen people in terms of “covenant.” God made a covenant with Noah, with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the children of Israel ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    The Test Of True Love

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 15, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 9,213 views

    The test of true Love. (PowerPoint slides to accompany this talk are available on request - email: gcurley@gcurley.info)

    Sermon outline: LOVE IS PROVED BY: by sacrifice (vs 16) by mercy (vs 17) by actions (vs 18) THE RESULTS OF TRUE LOVE: assurance (vs 19-20) answered prayer (vs 21-22) abiding (vs 23-24) Sermon text: Ill: • 4 boys in secondary school had a reputation of playing truant; • One morning they ...read more

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    Denomination: Brethren

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    The Love Of God

    Contributed by Aarron Ellerman on Jan 7, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,468 views

    The kind of love God expects His followers to have for one another.

    1 John 3:16-18 “The Love of God” I. The Measure of Love (16a) A. Dualism of John’s writings • Love & Hate • Light & Dark • Righteousness & Sin B. There is no middle ground with John, no gray area. C. This causes us to do a reality check  here John says you either love your brother or ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Chain Reaction Series

    Contributed by Todd Pugh on Jan 14, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,980 views

    God seeks to fuse his life with ours, so we may truly live. His love started the greatest chain reaction the universe has ever seen.

    Chain Reaction Series: Turn on the light Sunday Sermon / December 16, 2007 Intro: Author, Lisa Rogak has written a book on Funeral Foods, Rituals & Customs from Around World It’s entitled, “Death Warmed over.” In it she tells the story of one man who was very near death. He was dying at home in ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    The Love Of Jesus Series

    Contributed by Michael Luke on Jan 21, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
     | 7,341 views

    John 3:16 is known to all. Other 3:16 passages in the New Testament teach us important things about Jesus as well. This is 1 John 3:16.

    (based on a sermon series by Tom Ellsworth) SERIES: “DISCOVER JESUS: The Other 3:16’s) TEXT: 1 JOHN 3:11-18 TITLE: “THE LOVE OF JESUS” OPEN: A. Today is a very exciting day 1. Last Sunday, we began our 10 Week Spiritual Adventure a. I pray ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Becoming Loving & Sacrificial Series

    Contributed by Scott Brewer on Aug 7, 2007
    based on 11 ratings
     | 9,239 views

    Loving others well is the chief evidence that one is a Christ follower.

    An Incarnational, Missional People Becoming Loving & Sacrificial 1 John 3:11-24 Is there enough evidence to convict you of being a Christ-follower? Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge John Burlew was on the bench in April when Eric Hine, 43, of Cincinnati, came before him on a charge of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    When Our Hearts Condemn Us Series

    Contributed by Patrick O'loughlin on Aug 6, 2007
    based on 8 ratings
     | 6,191 views

    What happens when our hearts comdemn us and what can we do about it?

    Text: 1 John 3:11-24 Title: When our hearts condemn us Introduction John tells us that the oldest message in the world is the message “We should love one another.” And the first person in the world to disobey that message was Cain who we are told in verse 12 “belonged to the evil one and murdered ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Free Demo Faith Series

    Contributed by Jason Jones on Jun 11, 2008
     | 3,324 views

    Exposition of 1 John 3:4-18 regarding authentic faith. It is 2 of 6 sermons that are related to our churches mission statement. The mission point that it is about is the "demonstration of authentic faith."

    Text: 1 John 3:4-18, Title: Free Demo Faith, Date/Place: NRBC, 6/15/08, AM A. Opening illustration: Talk about downloading the free demon of a game on the computer, explain how it works to get you interested, but stops before you get any real satisfaction; So that you will pay up and buy the game. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Fellowship Means Living Love Series

    Contributed by Brien Sims on Jun 17, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,400 views

    Loving with action and not just words can and will build fellowship with other people as well as with God.

    All human beings like to feel as though they belong or fit in with others. Being different can be difficult and we may even find ourselves exiled or outcast from the group we thought we associated with so easily. The world around us today is all about going with the flow. Actually, it pushes more ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Inspect Your Spiritual Dna

    Contributed by Daniel Habben on May 30, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 13,364 views

    Inspect Your Spiritual DNA 1) You’re more like Cain than you’d like to admit 2) You’re more like Christ than you realize

    DNA testing is becoming more and more common. The police regularly use it of course to track down criminals but law-abiding citizens are also having their DNA tested. They want to see if they are descended from anyone famous. There’s a good chance of that if you are from mainland Asia ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Loving Your Brother Series

    Contributed by Stephen E. Trail on Jul 6, 2011
     | 9,115 views

    Series on the power of love to restore relationships

    Redemptive Relationships “Loving Your Brother” 1 John 3:11-24 1 John 3:11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. I. Love is the preeminent commandment A. The background for the directive – ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Mark Nichols avatar

    Love One Another Series

    Contributed by Mark Nichols on Feb 21, 2011
     | 6,965 views

    The 10th sermon in the series Letters from John. In this sermon, John is going to describe for us exactly what real love is all about.

    ***It should be noted that the outline is one that was adapted from another preacher...however, the points have been changed and so the content is (to my knowledge), original. TEXT: 1st John 3:11-24 TITLE: REAL love SERIES: Letters from John TOPIC: Love OCCASION: Burnside Christian Church, ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ