Sermons about Love Demands Effort

A Love To Die For

Contributed by Mary Lewis on Feb 12, 2001

based on 379 ratings

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Jesus thinks you are "to die for"

A Love to Die For Intro Have you ever noticed how we Americans love slang? I didn’t, until I spent some time helping Russian immigrants with their English. I was constantly catching myself using slang phrases which of course were not in any of their English books. One time my friend Lynn (who is ...read more

Scripture: Romans 5:6-8

Denomination: Baptist

Love From With - In - 1st Love Series

Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 29, 2017

| 6,197 views

We all desire to experience a love that reaches us deep down inside our soul – inside our heart – it’s so deep it touches our inner spirit - this type of love is likened to when we first fell in love – our first love – it’s sends chills up and down our sp

Video Illustration: The Bridge Our video clip really demonstrates the pain of sacrificing someone we love for the sake of others. It’s rooted in John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” But why ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 4:7-8, 1 John 4:19

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Love Is Patient Series

Contributed by Kevin Cummins on Apr 20, 2005

based on 25 ratings

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One of the most difficult areas to show patience in is our relationships with others. But that is exactly what God’s Word calls us to have in our relationships. Because love is patient.

“Did you hear about the teacher who was helping one of her kindergarten students put on his boots? He asked for help and she could see why? With her pulling and him pushing, the boots still didn’t want to go on. When the second boot was on, she had worked up a sweat. She almost whimpered when the ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:4

Denomination: Church Of God

Love Is Real

Contributed by Andrew Chan on Jun 25, 2004

based on 28 ratings

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Experience the love of God through Jesus - Father’ day message for 2004.

LOVE IS REAL On his sixteenth birthday a son approached his father and said, "Dad, I’m sixteen now. When I get my license, can I drive the family car?" His dad looked at him and said, "Son, driving the car takes maturity, and first, you must prove that you are responsible enough. And one way you ...read more

Scripture: John 8:19-20

Denomination: Evangelical Free

Listen To Love

Contributed by Bobby Bodenhamer on Dec 27, 2008

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This message aims through Scriptural interpretation, illustration and a communication model to inform the listener to "listen" with a framework of love and care.

LISTEN TO LOVE Less talk, more communication "For the measure you measure with will be measured back to you" (Luke 6:38) 1. How hard is it to find someone who will really listen to you? • Those of us who have identified with Jesus the Christ, have been taught a very special kind of love, which ...read more

Scripture: John 3:1-21

Denomination: *other

Abounding Love

Contributed by Danny Presswood on Jan 26, 2009

based on 4 ratings

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The Christmas Season is a time for "Abounding Love."

Well folks, it has officially begun. The Christmas Rush! Like a row of hulking linemen on a professional football team, the season is down and set, poised to plow over us with all its demands, distractions, details, dilemmas, delights and duties. For merchants, it’s a "make-or-break" time of ...read more

Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13

Denomination: Baptist

Love And Relationships

Contributed by Jason York on Oct 9, 2016

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Breaks down and details our relationships between man and God

Champions for Christ Cowboy Church Message: Love and Relationships- October 9th, 2016 ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:4-13

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Loving God

Contributed by David Radcliff on Mar 11, 2016

based on 1 rating

| 6,734 views

How we are to truly love the Lord.

LOVING GOD Mark 12:28-31 In Mark 12:30-31 we have a very pivotal command for every Christian, a command that is at the very heart of Christianity. If these verses are not engrained in our daily living then we will never be spiritually what we should be. Many claim to love God, Many say they love ...read more

Scripture: Mark 12:28-31

Denomination: Baptist

The Law Of Love Series

Contributed by Chris Mccall on Mar 16, 2006

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Every principle, law and prophetic word hangs on the love of God. If things aren’t working in your life, examine your love walk.

1Corinthians 12:31 AMP. But earnestly desire and zealously cultivate the greatest and best gifts and graces (the higher gifts and the choicest graces). And yet I will show you a still more excellent way [one that is better by far and the highest of them all--love]. Every principle, law and ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:31

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

What Is Love? Series

Contributed by Jeffrey Sims on Feb 8, 2015

| 5,823 views

A sermon geared toward finding out what love really is and how we are called to Love others

Hadaway Asked what it was, Tina Turner wanted to know what it had to do with it, Mickey Gilly was looking for it in all the wrong places, and Aerosmith found it in an elevator. In cased you haven't got it yet we are talking about love. Love, there are songs about it, poems about it, and even a ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Hang On Love

Contributed by David Dunn on Sep 26, 2025

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God’s unrelenting love, reflected in a mother’s faithful vigil and fulfilled at Calvary, covers sin and brings honor, hope, and lasting joy.

Opening – Climbing the Hill Together Happy Mother’s Day! Today I want to take you on a journey—up a hill. Not a hill of soft grass and wildflowers, but a rocky ridge where a mother once stood guard for months. Before we start, imagine putting on a pair of sturdy hiking boots. This is more than a ...read more

Scripture: 2 Samuel 21:1-14, John 3:16, Psalm 32:1, Romans 8:38-39, Exodus 34:6-7 (view more) (view less)

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

The Imitation Of Love

Contributed by Mike Hays on Oct 18, 2000

based on 58 ratings

| 5,991 views

God has shown His love for us in His Son Jesus who has given His life so that we might know true love as well as salvation.

The Imitation of Love 1 John 3:11-24 "Pray that my love will be without limits." --Saint Maximilian Kolbe in his last letter to his mother. Father Maximilian Kolbe was forty-five years old in the early autumn of 1939 when the Nazis invaded his homeland. He was a Polish monk who founded the ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 3:11-24

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Love Is Kind Series

Contributed by David Owens on Oct 21, 2013

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In this sermon, we explore how to love others through kindness.

A. One day a minister who was a very kind man and loved to serve others noticed a young boy trying to press a doorbell on a house across the street. 1. Because the boy was so little and the doorbell was so high, he couldn’t reach it. 2. After watching the boy’s efforts for a moment, ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 3:12

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Disposition Of Love Series

Contributed by Byron Harvey on Mar 24, 2003

based on 50 ratings

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This is installment 13 in a series I preached on I Corinthians 13, and it deals with the fact that "love hopes all things."

“The Disposition of Love” I Corinthians 13:7 March 16, 2003 Love of Another Kind – I Corinthians 13 Intro At the start of World War II, the Russians developed what might be fairly called the most useless weapon of all time, perhaps the most embarrassing strategic failure of modern weaponry. ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:7

Denomination: Evangelical Free

Grounded In Love Series

Contributed by Troy Borst on Aug 19, 2004

based on 30 ratings

| 5,902 views

We as Christians, need to be people that are grounded in love as it is expressed all throughout Scripture. We need to know the source of love and what it means in our lives.

Grounded in Love 1 John 4:7-21 INTRODUCTION... “Doc, When Do I Die?” from Robert Coleman, Written in Blood In his book Written In Blood, Robert Coleman tells the story of a little boy whose sister needed a blood transfusion. She had a rare blood type which she shared with her little brother. The ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 4:7-21

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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