Sermons on Loving Your Brother:

Loving Your Wife Series

Contributed by Stephen E. Trail on Jul 9, 2011

How important love is in the marital relationship

Redemptive Relationships “Loving Your Wife” Ephesians 5:21-33 Ephesians 5:25 “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it…” I. The principle of spousal love - “Husbands love your wives…” a. A ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 5:21-33

Denomination: Baptist

Love Your Enemies? Series

Contributed by Scott Chambers on Sep 27, 2011

This message is the second in a series that deals with some of the difficult sayings of Jesus. This message deals with Jesus’ call to love your enemies.

Sometimes we hear something that sounds so unreasonable our response is, “You have got to be kidding.” I believe in our text we encounter Jesus saying something that really sounds unreasonable. In fact this statement goes against what we consider to be reasonable. This statement goes against ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:43-44

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Love Your Pastor Series

Contributed by C. Philip Green on Sep 27, 2018

If you really want to love and honor your leaders, remember them by the way you live your life; follow them; and pray for them.

An elderly woman walked into a little country church. A friendly usher greeted her at the door and helped her up the steps. "Where would you like to sit?" he asked. "The front row please," she answered. "You really don't want to do that," the usher said. "The pastor is really boring." "Do you ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 13:7-8, Hebrews 13:17-19

Denomination: Evangelical Free

Love Your Enemies Series

Contributed by Duncan Hamilton on May 2, 2016

A sermon inspired by the book For The Glory by Duncan Hamilton.

Text: Matthew 5:38-47 In Duncan Hamilton’s biography For the Glory, we learn that Scotsman Eric Liddell’s greatest challenge came, not when his convictions about racing on Sunday during the 1924 Olympics were tested, but when he served as a missionary in China amid the Japanese ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:38-47

Denomination: *other

Love Your Enemies!

Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jan 11, 2014

Love Your Enemies! (PowerPoint slides to accompany this talk are available on request – email: gcurley@gcurley.info)

SERMONOUTLINE: • THREE MISTAKES THE JEWISH LEADERS MADE; • Mistake #1: They qualified God’s law. • Mistake #2: They omitted God’s law. • Mistake #3: They added to God’s law. • THREE TRUTHS THAT JESUS EMPHASISED: • Fact #1: Love is a ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:43-48

Denomination: Brethren

Love Your Salvation

Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Sep 10, 2012

Verse 16 is at the heart of my focus for this psalm-love your salvation. And in this psalm, I see some of the things we will be doing if we love our salvation.

LOVE YOUR SALVATION Psalm 40:1-17 INTRODUCTION: Verse 16 is at the heart of my focus for this psalm-love your salvation. And in this psalm, I see some of the things we will be doing if we love our salvation. How do we love our salvation? • We remember what God did for us (vs.1-2). Sometimes, ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 40:1-17

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Love Your Neighbor Series

Contributed by Rodney Barlow on Feb 29, 2016

We need to take a closer look at what other things the Lord have asked of us concerning loving our neighborders and bearing others burdens.

Love Your Neighbor Gal 6:1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Gal 6:2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. The law of Christ-Things the ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 6:1-2

Denomination: Pentecostal

Love Your Neighbour

Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on May 18, 2020

Agape love as the fulfillment of the law.

LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR. Romans 13:8-10. The imperative, “To no one nothing owe you (all), but to love one another” (Romans 13:8a) follows on from the discussion of being subject to ‘the powers that be’ who - whether we voted for them or not - are ‘ordained of God’ (cf. Romans 13:1). This ...read more

Scripture: Romans 13:8-10

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Is Your Church Loved

Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Apr 27, 2023

Beware of popularity.

If everyone loves your church you are doing something wrong because all that live godly SHALL suffer persecution yet if you are suffering persecution you may be doing something wrong because you may be suffering for your own faults not for the cause of Christ. Check yourself and if you are ...read more

Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:10, 1 Peter 2:19, 1 Peter 4:16

Denomination: Baptist

Loving Your Neighbor

Contributed by Jerry Cosper on Feb 13, 2023

If we are supposed to carry out the Lord's commandment to love others as ourselves, we have to be trained by the Holy Spirit. And one of the primary ways the Holy Spirit grows and shapes us is through prayer.

Many of you will probably remember the classic 1984 movie, The Karate Kid. That movie contains a very memorable scene. It's become a pop culture reference. In this scene, the teenager, Daniel Larusso, vented his frustration toward his mentor, Mr. Miyagi, for assigning him what seemed to be ...read more

Scripture: 1 Timothy 2:1-8, Ephesians 3:14-19, Ephesians 6:19-20

Denomination: Baptist

Love Your Neighbor

Contributed by Jimmy Haile on May 3, 2021

Jesus doesn't tell me who my neighbor is all he tells me is that I'm supposed to love them as much as I love myself.

Matthew 22:37-Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38-“This is the first and great commandment. 39-“And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40-“On these two commandments hang all the ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 22:37-40

Denomination: Baptist

Divide Your Love Series

Contributed by Scott Maze on Jun 4, 2021

The command to love one another is sandwiched between two reasons to love that are both descriptions of the birth of hope. Love is encased in hope.

“What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life” (Emil Brunner) There are a lot of reasons for us not to be hopeful. I listed some just this week as I thought about this message: Suicide Stillborn children Multiple Sclerosis Sexual Abuse Eating Disorder Special Needs ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 1:22-25

Denomination: Baptist

Love Your Enemies

Contributed by Gerald Roberts on Feb 17, 2022

Jesus asks us to love the enemy, do good toward the enemy, bless the enemy, and pray for our enemies.

Love Your Enemies Luke 6:27-38 1. Love your enemies? Jesus say Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. • Jesus declares to his audience, "Love your enemies," The "love" Jesus calls for is not emotional or ...read more

Scripture: Luke 6:27-38

Denomination: Methodist

Love Your Enemies Series

Contributed by Michael Monica on Dec 25, 2022

Understanding Sanctification

Love Your Enemies | Matthew 5:43-48 “The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.” GK Chesterton. Verse 43: “You have heard it said…” • Jesus is referencing Leviticus 19:9-18 o Sometimes Jesus says, you have heard it ...read more

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Loving Your Neighbor

Contributed by Jesse Crooks on Aug 12, 2023

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.

Loving Your Neighbor (Luke 10: 30-37) 30 And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. 31 And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and ...read more

Scripture: Luke 10:30-37