Sermons on Love Never Fails:

What Is Biblical Love? How To Walk In The Way Of Love Series

Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Feb 12, 2024

Biblical love is willing to say a hard truth to someone in love, knowing that we may lose the friendship, but loving their soul more than their companionship. That’s real love. Niceness is a joke and a sham, compared to the glory of agape love.

Dave Simmons shared in his book about being a dad a time when he and his two kids went to a mall, and the mall had a petting zoo there. He had given each of his children, Brandon and Helen a quarter to enter, and then went to continue shopping. Soon he saw his daughter hadn’t gone in. He went to ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13, 1 Corinthians 14:1

Denomination: Salvation Army

Amazing Love Series

Contributed by Darren Ethier on May 21, 2002

Part 3 of 4 of the series, Ruth: A Woman of Faith. God’s love is so amazing! This is so evident in how God loved Ruth!

AMAZING LOVE Ruth 3 Read at beginning of service: 1 Corinthians 13:1-2 (NIV) 1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:1-2, Ruth 3:1-18

Denomination: Pentecostal

Love As I Have Loved

Contributed by Melvin Maughmer, Jr. on Apr 16, 2025

People don’t naturally love with a 1 Corinthians 13 type love. To love like that, there must be a line of demarcation, a transition from casual to serious, there must be change of heart, you must be Born-Again. Love can transcend these artificial barriers that keep us separated from one another.

Love as I have Loved By Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer, Jr. PRAYER SCRIPTURE: - John 13:31-35 “Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify ...read more

Scripture: John 13:31-35, Leviticus 19:18, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Denomination: Apostolic

Work Ethics

Contributed by Bala Samson on Aug 4, 2014

Joseph never fails to attract me because of his sincerity, holiness and determination. God would never fail to bless those who are faithful and honest in their work.

Work-place ethics! Genesis 39:3 “And his master (boss) saw that the Lord was with Joseph and that the Lord made all he did to prosper in his hand.” Stay tuned to hear a powerful message today. Many of you working in multinational corporate offices around the world are reading my ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 39:1-3

Denomination: Pentecostal

Able To Love

Contributed by Mark Opperman on Jan 15, 2014

Love is something we could never do without help from someone who is really good at it. Because of God’s love for each of us, we have the ability to love God and others.

Able to Love 1 John 4:7-21 7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 4:7-21

Denomination: Assembly Of God

How To Love Series

Contributed by John Dobbs on Feb 20, 2021

No doubt there were many acts of helping and kindness, neighbors checking in on neighbors that we will never hear about. We call the people who do these kinds of things “Good Samaritans.” One writer said the parable of the Good Samaritan “is one of the most gripping that Jesus ever told...

How To Love Luke 10:25-37 Introduction This has been an incredible week across the US … and unfortunately with much destruction and many deaths. Over 70% of the United States were covered in snow. As we thaw out from the frozen weather experience we hear many stories of care and service. ...read more

Scripture: Luke 10:25-37

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

What Is True Love?

Contributed by Casey Warford on Feb 14, 2009

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

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Denomination: Baptist

Love Or Cosmetology? Series

Contributed by D. Dewaine Phillips on Sep 15, 2021

Valentine's Day: If church members do Christian things like feed the homeless or go on mission trips, and these acts are done without love, then people are just wasting their time. Without love, God doesn’t care what we do for Him.

Neil Postman writes in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, “that we have reached the point where cosmetics has replaced ideology [or “practice”] as [a] field of expertise.”(1) The verb “cosmeticize” means, “to make something unpleasant or ugly superficially attractive.”(2) It’s common for people ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:1-8

Denomination: Baptist

How To Fail Without Becoming A Failure

Contributed by Michael Cariño on Jan 4, 2017

Big Idea: A person is not finished when he fails; a person is finished when he gives up.

How to Fail Without Becoming a Failure Luke 22:31-22:34 Kurt Cobain. The famous rock singer-songwriter, musician, and best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the band Nirvana, has sold over 50 million albums worldwide. During the last years of his life, Cobain struggled with heroin ...read more

Scripture: Luke 22:31-34

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Failed? Don’t Give Up!

Contributed by John Gaston on Sep 27, 2020

God encourages us that even if we fail, not to stop serving Him. When we sin, God doesn't automatically throw us out of covenant with Him. As a parent He disciplines us to help us become children of God.

FAILED? DON’T GIVE UP! 1 Sam. 12:12-22 INTRODUCTION A. HUMOR: Be Careful with Temptation 1. A fly was sitting on a lawn mower handle one morning watching the children going down the sidewalk on their way to school. 2. One little boy tripped and fell, spilling his lunch on the sidewalk. He ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 12:12-22

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Love: The Four Types Of Love Series

Contributed by Paul Basehore on Feb 10, 2016

Of the four types of love, only one can be chosen -- Agape. God did this intentionally because Agape is the most powerful, and echoes the love He has for us.

Last week we began our series on the L Word with lust, as an example of what love is not. That means that tonight we will begin to learn about what love is. But which love are we talking about? If that question doesn’t make sense, don’t worry -- you’re not alone. We only have one ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 18:1-3, Judges 16:4-8, Judges 16:15-21, Romans 1:29-31, 2 Timothy 3:1-5, 1 Corinthians 13:4-8  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Assembly Of God

How To Fail Without Becoming A Failure

Contributed by T. Michael Crews on Aug 13, 2007

A sermon on how God can use failure to make us a success in heaven’s eyes.

This morning I want to talk to you about how to fail without becoming a failure. What’s the difference? Everybody fails. People fail in school—maybe in a specific subject like math or history--- maybe an entire grade. People fail at business. People fail in marriage, fail in parenting, fail in ...read more

Scripture: Luke 22:31-34

Denomination: Baptist

You Only Fail If You Quit

Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Nov 18, 2022

A duck walks into a pet food shop and asks, 'Got any duck feed?'

• The shop assistant replies, 'No sir, we don't stock duck feed.' • Next day the duck returns. 'Got any duck feed?' • 'No sir, as I said, we don't stock duck feed.' • The following day the duck shows up again. 'Got any duck feed?' • 'Listen, I ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 40:28-31

Denomination: Baptist

#1doomed To Fail: Spiritual Blindness

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Sep 2, 2006

God’s people are doomed to failure if they walk in spiritual blindness. We need vision in the church? Do we want to see?

#1 DOOMED TO FAILURE BECAUSE OF SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com I do this lesson in two parts. But this is part one of a several part lesson! Years ago at President John Kennedy’s grave an eternal flame was ignited. The experts said it would burn for ever. A ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 15:14

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Ephesus: A First Love Lost

Contributed by Roddy Chestnut on Oct 18, 2000

Thesis: A healthy church is one that never leaves its first love.

Thesis: A healthy church is one that never leaves its first love. Intro.: 1. What one first century church do we know more about than any other in NT? 2. Ephesus! a. Acts 19-20--establishment of church by Paul. b. Ephesians--letter written to correct some developing problems. c. 1 ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 2:1-7