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  • David Heflin avatar

    Unrelenting Love Series

    Contributed by David Heflin on Jun 13, 2007
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     | 2,606 views

    This sermon explores how the unconquerable love of Christ is the catalyst and motivator for our love for our fellow man, especially our enemy.

    Crying Wolf Matt. 5:33-37 5/27/07 PSCOC Introduction: Ed Harris story. Last week I traveled to Austin for a seminar. As we were waiting for our bags to arrive you just won’t believe who we saw walking out of the bathroom, but I promise you it was none other than Ed Harris. I swear he wasn’t ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Love Everyone?

    Contributed by Derek Geldart on May 24, 2020
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    The following sermon is going to review the reasons why God commanded us to love and one another, how love is a litmus of one’s salvation and how to perfect God’s love within our lives.

    Loving One Another 1 John 4:7-21 Online Sermon: http://www.mckeesfamily.com/?page_id=3567 Remember when you confessed your sins and invited Jesus Christ into your heart to rule your life? On that day you experienced a radical transformation in which you were born again not of flesh and blood ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Extravagant Love

    Contributed by Scott Spencer on Jul 9, 2014
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    When the unbelieving world looks at the Christian, they have a difficult time figuring us out. In terms of their own world view, the way we Christians live doesn't make a lot of sense.

    Extravagant Love Mark 14:1-9 1. Now the Passover and Unleavened Bread were two days away; and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to seize Him by stealth and kill Him; 2. for they were saying, “Not during the festival, otherwise there might be a riot of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Calvary Chapel

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    Loving Together

    Contributed by Todd Stiles on Nov 22, 2006
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     | 2,310 views

    What would life and church be like without love? Find out as we walk through 1 Corinthians 13, the love chapter.

    "Loving Together" 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 While our Elders find their seat, I’ll ask you to locate four chapters in your Bible, 1 Cor. 11-14, and hold those pages in your hand. Now, let me ask you a question: When you look at all the things a church does, what stands out as the most important? In ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Agape Love PRO Sermon

    Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Sep 28, 2023
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     | 1,087 views

    Explore the nature, necessity, and expression of Agape Love - God's unconditional love - and how we, as followers of Christ, are called to embody and express this love to others.

    Good morning, Church Family! Today, we'll be diving deep into our understanding of love – not just any kind of love, but Agape Love – the kind of love God showers on us every day. It's a kind of love that is unique and powerful, and it's a kind of love that we, as followers of Christ, are called to ...read more

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    Love On Display

    Contributed by Martin Holland on Feb 8, 2013
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    When it comes to loving the model for every believer is Jesus Himself.

    Love on Display John 13:1, 31-35 When it comes to loving the model for every believer is the Lord Himself. We can truly never love without the gift of the Holy Spirit and complete yielding unto Him in this grace. Ephesians 2:4 But God who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Perceive Love

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 19, 2014
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    We need to perceive what true love is and then live it out in our lives. When we do this we encounter God and please God. We also see lives transformed and changed!

    Theme first ¼ - True Life Thesis: True life – a life that matters for eternity and pleases God is one which is based and rooted in truth. Jesus said he is the “Truth.” He is God’s truth to this world and all measurement of true and false are measured against Him and His ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Burning Love

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Feb 11, 2012
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     | 12,435 views

    Christians must seize the ardor of love that is taught in the Word to fully appreciate the life God intends for those who are married.

    “Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    For The Love Of Christ

    Contributed by Bruce Ball on Dec 7, 2005
    based on 134 ratings
     | 7,785 views

    A sermon that reminds us to keep our focus on the destination: The eternal life in worshiping the Lord in Heaven.

    We have all heard that Jesus is coming back. That should be the best news we will ever hear, but for many Christians, it is just a story. A story from a book that is more like fantasy than reality. A story they hear, but do not really believe. And because they do not believe it, they have missed ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    For The Love Of Labor Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Sep 5, 2011
    based on 74 ratings
     | 19,274 views

    Both Jamestown and Plymouth nearly failed in their early years. But it was the Pilgrims' view of labor that not only saved it's colony, but became the driving force in making our nation great.

    OPEN: (Asking the Crowd) What is this weekend? That’s right – it’s Labor Day Weekend. And our sermon today is the beginning of a series on “What Made America Great”. This first sermon deals with the greatness that has been brought to our nation because of how and why ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    The Love Of Jesus Series

    Contributed by Freddy Fritz on Apr 12, 2017
    based on 1 rating
     | 10,533 views

    We learn three truths about the love of Jesus.

    Scripture On the night of Jesus’ betrayal and arrest, he had his last supper with his disciples. This was when Jesus instituted what we know today as the Lord’s Supper, which has been eaten by Christians for almost two millennia. John’s Gospel has the most detailed account of what happened during ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Love Or Cosmetology? Series

    Contributed by D. Dewaine Phillips on Sep 15, 2021
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,229 views

    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

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Jilted Love

    Contributed by Ken Gehrels on Dec 5, 2001
    based on 41 ratings
     | 7,090 views

    God’s love is passionate and devoted - but when jilted sparks a holy fury.

    Jilted Love Bible Reading: Amos 2: 6-16 PREPARED BY KEN GEHRELS PASTOR CALVIN CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH NEPEAN, ONTARIO -- Jilted Love p.1 They began to notice that she just wasn’t the same. Sue had been pouring their coffee for the last 10 years every Thursday morning at the neighborhood bar & ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Extending Love

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 24, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,045 views

    Most people love only when it benefits them or meets their needs. Even though it is forbidden by God to hate another person, to nurse a grudge or to seek vengance, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” was the rule of the day, Jesus calls us to love

    Extending Love John 13:34-35

 In our Scripture today, Jesus is sharing His last evening with His disciples before He is crucified. They’re together in the Upper Room and Jesus began the evening with washing the disciple’s feet, teaching them humility and servanthood. While they were ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Love Is Kind Series

    Contributed by Jeffery Anselmi on Feb 14, 2025
     | 570 views

    "Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain

    INTRODUCTION OPENING SLIDE - Love better. - Of all the things in life, we can do better is love. SLIDE #1 - Last week, we began the series with love is patient. - Patience is the anchor of love. - Today, we move to love is kind. - Love Is Kind Just as patience will take anything from others, ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ