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  • Mark Opperman avatar

    The Echo Of Love

    Contributed by Mark Opperman on Feb 16, 2010
    based on 25 ratings
     | 18,686 views

    God’s love enables us to love Him back and to love others.

    The Echo of Love Intro: God’s love echoes through history like the reverberating rumble of thunder across a majestic mountain range. However, unlike the diminishing thunder, the echo of God’s love continues loud and strong for those who will listen. Just as sound waves can either be ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Laboring Love

    Contributed by Randy Sceroler on Feb 20, 2010
    based on 8 ratings
     | 4,451 views

    God's Love for you and I is Active and so should ours be toward one another. This sermon will help y0u understand the importance of our saying I love you and what it means to carry it out,

    Laboring Love Valentine Day Message “We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives of the brethren.” 1 JOHN 3:16 A LOVE THAT LABORS WILL DO SEVERAL THINGS 1. LABORING LOVE WILL BRING SECURITY. "We Know" A. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Ralph Andrus avatar

    A Love Affair

    Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Feb 24, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,049 views

    Are you Romantic? - Having a love affair with excitement & adventure in your marriage

    - Love Affair, one of the 1939 Best Picture nominees & Best Actress - Starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer - At a premarital counseling the minister asks how long they have know each other - 9 out of ten the groom will answer, ’2 or 3 years, ’ while the bride will say, ’3 or 4 ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Love Is A Verb

    Contributed by Jeffery Anselmi on Feb 24, 2010
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     | 7,604 views

    Love is ACTION, not words or feelings.

    INTRODUCTION • PC VIDEO • SLIDE #1 • Love is a verb. • What is a verb? Here is what the dictionary tells us concerning the word. • Verb-a word used to show that an action is taking place or to indicate the existence of a state or condition • Words, we say a lot ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Kevin Jones avatar

    The Importance Of Love

    Contributed by Kevin Jones on Mar 3, 2010
     | 1,557 views

    The greatest thing to focus on is love.

    The Importance of Love Well in case you are unaware today is Valentine’s Day. The origin of the day is uncertain as there are several stories of how this day came into existence, but the origin is not really that important. We do realize that it is big business for greeting card companies, ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Agape Love Series

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Mar 17, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 40,651 views

    The Beatles said it best when they sang, “all you need is love” …...and then they broke up. We cannot agape love on our own, we need God to enable us to agape love.

    How can I love? They hurt me. They said this thing that hurt me. I tried to ignore it. I said to myself, “It doesn’t matter, move on, be mature about it, it was just this dumb little thing. But still, I kept thinking about it. I wanted to put it out of my mind, I didn’t want to think about it….but ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Alvin Hathaway, Sr. avatar

    Love The Lord

    Contributed by Alvin Hathaway, Sr. on Mar 18, 2009
    based on 5 ratings
     | 7,975 views

    You love the LOrd when you rejoice in awe of his awesome power, when you recognize his righteousness, and when you remember his holiness.

    Sunday, February 18, 2007 “Love the Lord” Text: Psalms 97 After last week’s break we continue with our sermon series entitled Stories of Love. Earlier we examined the agape, philos, and eros nature of God’s love and concluded that God’s love is all encompassing. His love is intimate, exciting, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Love Sincerely

    Contributed by Alvin Hathaway, Sr. on Mar 18, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,652 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

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    The Love Of A Father

    Contributed by Ricky Johnson on Mar 22, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,960 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

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    Loving Friends

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on May 15, 2009
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,683 views

    We are to be friends to all just as Jesus is a friend to us.

    John 15: 9 – 17 / Loving Friends Intro: Things that make you go, HMMMM! – Why is it a compliment to tell a woman she looks like a breath of spring; but, not to tell her she looks like the end of a hard winter? --- I wonder why it pleases a woman when you say time stands still when you look into ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    The Centrality Of Love

    Contributed by Jim Kane on May 18, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,024 views

    First Sermon of a post-Easter series on love.

    (Slide 1) A song from the 1950’s said that “Love is a many splendored thing.’ I would also suggest that love is a very resilient thing as the following situations reveal. First, the resiliency of love reveals itself in the story of two newlyweds. Now prior to the marriage the groom was ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    The Patience Of Love

    Contributed by Jim Kane on May 18, 2009
     | 3,581 views

    The third sermon of a post-Easter series on Love

    (Slide 1) Impatience… What comes to mind when you read that word? Or you hear it? Or you see it in action? Or personally experience it? The late W.H. Auden wrote, “Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.” I recently read the story of an ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

  • Mark Armstrong avatar

    United In Love Series

    Contributed by Mark Armstrong on Jun 2, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,724 views

    Setting a purpose for Christian living.

    Christians without goals are a little like Alice in the fairy tale ‘Alice in Wonderland’. In a conversation between her and the Cheshire Cat, Alice asked, ‘Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here’? ‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to’, said the cat. ‘I don’t ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Loving The Brotherhood Series

    Contributed by Dr. Jerry N. Watts on Jun 9, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 15,209 views

    Paul gives some Biblical way to love the family of God.

    Loving the Brotherhood Romans 16:1-16 * One day, as a minister sat in the office of his church to meet anyone who might have spiritual difficulties, only one person came. "What is your difficulty?" asked the minister. The man answered, "My difficulty is the ninth chapter of Romans, where it says, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Brad Bailey avatar

    The Love Connection Series

    Contributed by Brad Bailey on Jun 11, 2009
     | 5,110 views

    We tend to be most at peace with God… When selflessly serving… especially the poor… but even one’s friends and family. When sharing the love of Jesus with someone whose heart is open. When truly forgiving and extending grace to one who is indebted to u

    I returned a week ago from Nepal… to be a part of… South Asia Vineyard Family Gathering. Included a few key Indian leaders… but mostly Nepali… about a quarter from the urban area of Kathmandu… many from NE India border… and a majority from the villages that spread many miles up into the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational