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  • Alvin Hathaway, Sr. avatar

    Love Sincerely

    Contributed by Alvin Hathaway, Sr. on Mar 18, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,740 views

    To love sincerely means that you will give sincerely not to man, but to God.

    Sunday, February 25, 2007 “Love Sincerely” Text: 2 Corinthians 8: 1-9 This Sunday we complete our three part series on the Stories of Love. We began by examining the 3rd Chapter in the Song of Solomon. In the most intimate of language we realized that God’s love is all encompassing. It is agape, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Ricky Johnson avatar

    The Love Of A Father

    Contributed by Ricky Johnson on Mar 22, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,130 views

    Facing up to John 3:16 and exactly what it means to me, phrase by phrase.

    If you were like me, around the age of five or six, Miss Money taught you your first Bible verse in Sunday School; and it probably was John 3:16: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him may not perish but have eternal life." Over the ensuing ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

  • Mark Eberly avatar

    The Labor Of Love

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 4, 2008
    based on 5 ratings
     | 6,189 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

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    The Limit Of Love

    Contributed by Mike Rickman on Sep 5, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,376 views

    Love must be expressed in the flesh in order for it to be real.

    September 7, 2008 Morning Worship Text: Luke 10:25-35 Subject: The Fruit of the Spirit Title: The Limit of Love Turn to Luke 10. What kind of love do you have in you? As I shared with you last week from Galatians 5:22-23, if you are born again you have certain attributes that now are alive ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • David Owens avatar

    We Are Loved Series

    Contributed by David Owens on Sep 8, 2008
    based on 20 ratings
     | 12,295 views

    This first sermon in my transforming truth series addresses the most fundamental of truths - God loves us. If we get that one on straight, then we will be well on our way.

    A. Let me begin by sharing a few simple, practical truths: 1. “A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.” – unknown 2. “A bulldog can whip a skunk, but sometimes it’s not worth it.” - J. Nowell 3. “A closed mouth gathers no feet.” - Sam Horn 4. “An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but an onion a ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Mark Opperman avatar

    Perfect Love

    Contributed by Mark Opperman on Sep 10, 2008
    based on 6 ratings
     | 7,573 views

    We can only love perfectly when we have been changed by God’s perfect love. I. The Twisting of Perfect Love. II. The Example of Perfect Love. III. The Call to Perfect Love.

    Perfect Love Matthew 5:43-48 43 ”You have heard that it was said, ’Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Ajai Prakash avatar

    Love Demands Series

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Sep 24, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,442 views

    The Fruit of the Spirit is God’s love and work in us, the love of Christ flowing in through His Holy Spirit in and out of us! All because we have a personal relationship with Christ, we have God’s living presence in us, living in us. The result is we have

    Opening illustration: The teacher in our adult-education creative-writing class told us to write "I love you" in 25 words or less, without using the words "I love you." She gave us 15 minutes. A woman in the class spent about ten minutes looking at the ceiling and wriggling in her seat. The last ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Allen James avatar

    God Is Love Series

    Contributed by Allen James on Apr 6, 2010
     | 4,696 views

    The final message in a 7-Part Series, Shift - A New Way of Thinking. In Matthew 5:43-48, Jesus challenges His disciples to follow His example and love their enemies.

    God Is Love • Matthew 5:43-48 • Easter Weekend INTRODUCTION: God is not focused on MODIFYING BEHAVIOR by His laws. He wants to TRANSFORM LIVES by His love. This is the power of the resurrection! I. God loves without DISCRIMINATION. (v. 43-45a) Many read Jesus’ words here and ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Frederick Baker II avatar

    True Love

    Contributed by Frederick Baker Ii on Apr 20, 2010
     | 3,578 views

    This a sermon showing God's Love through the Good Samaritan.

    “True Love” Scripture Reading: Luke 10:25-37 Text: John 3:16 John 15:12-13 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” “This is my commandment, That ye love one ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Lavish Love Series

    Contributed by C. Philip Green on Apr 21, 2010
    based on 7 ratings
     | 9,064 views

    Don’t waste your life in secret, cheap acts designed to get the praise of people. Instead, give it all away in exposed, expensive, extravagant acts of devotion to our Lord, because that is what worship is all about.

    An old farmer went to the city one weekend and attended the big city church. He came home and his wife asked him how it was. “Well,” said the farmer, “It was good. They did something different, however. They sang praise choruses instead of hymns.” “Praise choruses,” said his wife, “What are ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

  • Greg Nance avatar

    Fresh Love

    Contributed by Greg Nance on Nov 18, 2009
     | 3,477 views

    New commandment? I thought love was as old as Genesis. What’s new about Jesus’ commandment to love?

    What’s Fresh about Love? John 13:31-38 When therefore he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him; if God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him immediately. "Little children, I am with you a little while ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Paul Green avatar

    Loving The Unlovable Series

    Contributed by Paul Green on Nov 28, 2009
    based on 25 ratings
     | 54,574 views

    It’s easy to love those who love us, but what about those we find it difficult to love? What about those who don’t like us? How do we still love and respect them as God’s people?

    I want us to pay particular attention this morning to verse 6 and 7 – ‘You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Ken Pell avatar

    Love Anyway

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Oct 19, 2008
     | 3,981 views

    The extravagance of love often has a demanding yet exhilarating cost.

    Love Anyway Mark 14:3-9 Sermon Objective: The extravagance of love often has a demanding yet exhilarating cost. Supporting Scripture: 1 John 4:20; Luke 10:29-37; James 2:14-26 INTRO It was a quiet December evening on Ward C43, the oncology unit at Georgetown University. Many of the rooms ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

  • Christine Forehand avatar

    A Mother's Love Series

    Contributed by Christine Forehand on Oct 22, 2008
    based on 16 ratings
     | 16,252 views

    A mother will go to great lengths for her children and so will GOD!

    I. G. Campbell Morgan, a profound British preacher whose four sons all became pastors, influenced millions with his preaching, teaching and writing. One day, when his young son Howard finished preached, a reporter asked him, "Since you have five Pastors in your family who is the greatest ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    A Shepherd's Love

    Contributed by Rev. Matthew Parker on Oct 16, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,475 views

    This is a funeral/memorial meditation for the memorial service of a man who died after a life of struggle.

    Memorial Meditation – October 17, 2009 - Psalm 23 I love this passage of Scripture because it speaks of life’s most important and most intimate relationship, that of humanity, of you and me, to our Creator. And rather than use terms like Creator, Almighty One, even the term “God” itself, the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational