Sermons on Losing A Loved One:

Love's Commitment Series

Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Feb 17, 2015

God is committed to love us with an unconditional and uncommon love.

Series: God’s Outrageous Love Title: Love’s Commitment Text: Hosea 1:1-2:1; 3:1-5 Truth: God is committed to love us with an unconditional and uncommon love. Aim: To understand God’s love for us so that we respond with a greater obedience to God. Life Question: How do we know ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Crazy Love

Contributed by Judah Thomas on Oct 21, 2003

God is so in love with you that He will go to drastic, even crazy means to get your attention.

A group of four-through eight-year-olds were asked: “What does love mean?” Their answers vary from the amusing to the profound. Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other. Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your ...read more

Scripture: Romans 8:38-39

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Love Forgives Series

Contributed by David Owens on Nov 4, 2013

This sermon explores what Scripture says about love and forgiveness.

Introduction: A. I want to begin today’s sermon with a few cartoons to get us thinking about forgiveness and how difficult and confusing a subject it can be. 1. The first cartoon shows a wife saying to her husband, “Forgive you?...Sure I’ll forgive you…the moment I see ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 4:31-32

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Lessons In Love Series

Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Nov 4, 2007

This is the last of four and looks at the heart of Jonah compared to the heart of God and the lessons in love that Jonah would need to learn as a consequence.

Jonah chapter 4: 1-11. Lessons in love. I recently watched documentary on the internet it we Louis theorux and he was spending some time with a Christian family from Texas who had formed a Church called Westboro Baptist church and part of their evangelistic strategy was to travel around America ...read more

Scripture: Jonah 4:1-11

Denomination: Baptist

Rethinking Love

Contributed by Dave Workman on Apr 26, 2011

Jesus love is raging, it’s extravagant, it’s illogical, it’s over-the-top, it’s revolutionary, it pushes the boundaries of how we define love.

A while back there was a news story on the BBC about a teenage girl in England who had her boyfriend’s nickname tattooed in Chinese on her stomach, symbolic of her “undying love” for him. A tattoo on your stomach?—that’s got to hurt. A little later—and who would ...read more

Scripture: Luke 6:27-35

Denomination: Vineyard

Love Lost

Contributed by Gerald Albers on Jun 5, 2007

Most of you are pretty happy with what is going on around here, or you wouldn’t be here. But we need to stop at this point and ask a very important question. Does that really matter?

LOVED LOST I would invite you to turn in your Bibles to the book of Revelation chapter 2, if you haven’t done so already. Keep them open during the sermon to this chapter as we wrestle this morning with the first seven verses of that chapter. In verse five, the author has ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 2:1-7

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Love Is Not Selfish Series

Contributed by David Owens on Dec 2, 2013

As we continue to learn to make love a way of life, in this sermon we learn how to have a love that is not selfish.

A. There’s a story told about a little boy and his sister who were riding a rocking horse together. 1. As you can imagine, it was a little crowded on that rocking horse with the two of them on it. 2. After a few minutes rocking like that, the little boy said, “If one of us would get ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 2:3-8

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Walk In Love Series

Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Aug 2, 2015

1) The Plea (Ephesians 5:1–2a), 2) The Pattern (Ephesians 5:2b), 3) The Perversion (Ephesians 5:3–4)

The world claims to want love, and love is advocated and praised from every corner. Romantic love especially is touted. Songs, novels, movies, and television serials continually exploit emotional, lustful desire as if it were genuine love. Questing for and fantasizing about the “perfect ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 5:1-7

Denomination: Other

A Lifestyle Of Love Series

Contributed by Kyle Meador on Dec 7, 2001

Children need to learn to demonstrate the love of Jesus is the both small and the significant moments of life, just as Jesus did.

What Parents Owe Their Children A Lifestyle of Love – part one Do you ever remember this game? You’d just met and spent some time with a very special person of the other gender. The gleam in their eyes, the smile on their lips… you can’t stop thinking about them. When they’re around, you feel ...read more

Scripture: John 11:21-36

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Walk In Love Series

Contributed by Freddy Fritz on Oct 5, 2018

The analysis of the concept of imitating God in Ephesians 5:1-7 teaches us to walk in love.

Scripture Today I am beginning a new sermon series in Ephesians 5:1-21 that I am calling, “Be Imitators of God.” In his letter to the Ephesian Christians, the Apostle Paul wrote in Ephesians 5:1a, “Therefore be imitators of God.” Commentator James Montgomery Boice says that this is “one of the ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 5:1-7

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Love Does That

Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Dec 23, 2003

What is love? How does it act? How can we recognize it?

Love Does That John 3:16 Introduction: Christmas is a magical time. And Christmas is a busy time. I know that and I promise that the length of my sermonette will reflect that knowledge. In thinking about this sermonette I wondered what I should emphasize. Should I concentrate on the shepherds ...read more

Scripture: John 3:16

Denomination: Baptist

Love Incarnate

Contributed by Ken Pell on Mar 9, 2009

Christ’s death is evidence of his all-encompassing love for humankind; it is intended to stir the congregation to remember that Jesus loves them!

Love Incarnate Mark 15:21-37 Sermon Objective: Christ’s death is evidence of his all-encompassing love for humankind; it is intended to stir the congregation to remember that Jesus loves them! Supporting Scripture: Isaiah 53:1-12; John 3:16-17; Romans 5:8; Ephesians 3:17-19; Philippians ...read more

Scripture: Mark 15:21-37

Denomination: Nazarene

Showing Love

Contributed by James Powell on Mar 3, 2007

Love, showing each other what it is.

Contributed by: Larry Jeffries Johnny was not a very popular boy at school, in fact you might say he wasn’t liked at all. It was not anything in particular, well you know the type (maybe even been one of these yourself). Johnny loved Valentines Day and every year looked forward to it. He would ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 3:1-3

Denomination: Holiness

First Love

Contributed by Pastor Randall Timblin on Jan 28, 2019

Bone of my Bones and Flesh of my Flesh. That my friends was the First Love. On the Sixth day, God created man and woman (ISHA) and He did it because of LOVE.

HOLY FATHER...we are here in Your presence... to WORSHIP and Adore You. We are here to listen to Your every word... To be filled with Your Almighty Wisdom and Strength We praise You and bless You and Your ALMIGHTY Name YAHWEH LET THIS BE OUR CALL TO WORSHIP SCRIPTURE Genesis 2:20-23 (NKJV) [20] So ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 2:20-23, Genesis 1:26-27, Genesis 3:20, John 3:16-17

Denomination: *other

Tough Love

Contributed by John Beehler on Mar 20, 2001

We must love everyone, even our enemies.

Tough Love 1. Valentine’s Day. Candy, flowers, Hallmark cards. Day for people “in love”. What is love? Emotion? Feeling? Physical desire? What is love? 2. Young adults discussing how to say “I Love You”. Group, suit, knelt, ask to marry. Mom, tough ...read more

Scripture: Luke 6:27-36, Genesis 45:3-11

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed