Sermons About Love
A Picture of Perfect Love
In a world awash with faulty definitions of love, the definition that God has provided through the cross of Jesus is the standard that must inform our attempts to love others in truth.
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God is Calling us to make him our Total priority
God is calling us to step out and commit to him. God is calling us to a holy and pure life. He is calling us to make him our total priority. God is calling us into fellowship with his son Jesus Christ.
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Mothers, God's Daily Reminder of His Love
A mother's love for her family can only be seconded by God's love for mankind.
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Keeping Perspective in Suffering (Romans 5:3-5)
As Christians we are to rejoice in our trials and sufferings because 1) they are part of God's agenda for us, 2) God will use them to forge a Christian hope in us, and 3) God will use them to forge a certain hope in us. Though we are tempted to disorientation and despair during times of suffering and trial, we can surely trust in God's promises and love to sustain us through trials, and even to bring a Godly rejoicing and hope in the midst of them.
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Judge Not
This week, Pastor Kevin looked at not only the command we have not to condemn others, but even deeper, the question of why we judge others!
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Getting People to Take Their Medicine
It has been said that the church is to be a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. If the church is a hospital, what kind of medicine does it offer and how can it persuade patients to take it? Just as in every area of life, Jesus is our example here. He excelled in getting people to hear and accept what God had to say to them. He led many people to complete change and healing. What was his secret weapon? Key Verses: Lk 5:27-32, Matt 28:18, Lk 7:36-39, Matt 19:16-22, Eph 2:8-12, John 16:7-14, Lk 19:1ff, 1John 4:8
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Something About George
We all miss Our Beloved Pastor George, each of us in our own way. Steve brings a unique message, dealing with a few of his qualities and how we each have, or can have those same qualities in our own life. Remember, you must move on and live your life in God's will.
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Dealing with Bad Reviews
There will always be those who dislike the gospel and our speaking it. If the believer keeps his or her focus on the right thing, discouragement won't be a problem.
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Something for everyone
God, be mercy-seated to me, a sinner. God, because of the blood poured out upon the altar, set aside your wrath and express your love and forgiveness to me.
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Picture to Burn
Sometimes love hurts and we ask "Why did God set us up for heartbreak?" The Song of Songs addresses this part of being human. Note: This message uses the message "A Holy Longing" by Bryan Wilkerson as a primary source.
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Kingdom Demands for Love: Part 3 (AM)
Adam continues through the Sermon on the Mount (5:43-48). Jesus' demands for love far surpassed the demands of Jewish culture then and the natural ability of our hearts now. Only the Gospel of grace can enable us to meet God's standard of perfection.
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Family Dynamics: Godly Love From The Teaching Of The Apostle John
What is Biblical love, and what are its effects? The Apostle John has the answer.
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Solomon: Prone to Wander (1 Kings 3:5-15)
In his youth, Solomon loved God and worshipped with extravagance. As he aged however, he began to love God’s gifts more than he loved the Giver. In this sermon, we will look at what it takes to cultivate a healthy and vital love for God.
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Holy Help
Loving God is best fulfilled by being obedient to His expectations. It's a tall order, but God does not leave us alone as we try to be obedient.
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Meet The Neighbours
Moving Jesus into the centre means becoming part of a unique community of people with a mission to change our world by showing God’s love.
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Working the Crowd
People are looking for the things the gospel provides. When we present the gospel in a winsome manner, people will respond.
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Living In Suffering
When you become a Christian, there is some ‘fine print’ that is easy to miss. It goes something like this: “God will teach you how to love each other and trust in him through suffering. This serves as proof of his judgment that he makes you worthy to be in his kingdom.” In 1 Thes. 1:1-5, Paul teaches that you are to persevere in loving one another and learn to trust in God through “persecutions and afflictions”. It is by design that you grow through the difficult experiences of your life. This is how God judges you worthy to be part of is kingdom.
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More Love
"According to scripture, wanting to receive and express more love is something that God will help us with. The degree to which you and I are loving people may not keep us awake at night except for one thing, that in God's economy, the single highest value by a factor of X is love. It is the primary measuring rod by which your life and my life will be judged. So how do we grow More Love?"
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Kingdom Demands for Love:Pt 2 (AM)
Adam returns to Matt 5:38-42 and Jesus' presentation of a radical Kingdom view of love. Kingdom love demands the surrender of our culturally expected, deeply ingrained, daily habit of personal promotion and defense.
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Family Dynamics: Godly Speech From A Lament Of King David (Part 2)
David's lament tips us off to the connection between speech and the heart. What could go horribly wrong can be made right only through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Why the Local Church? (Ephesians 4:11-16)
In God's design, the local church is to serve as 1) a place to hear God's word preached and applied in a systematic way; 2) a place to put our commitment to God, and to one another, into practice; 3) a context for us to mature; 4) a place to discover and practice our ministry and spiritual gifts with perspective and leadership; 5) a protection from doctrinal error; 6) a place to demonstrate the gospel; and 7) a place to preserve and cultivate the fruit of the gospel.
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God Is Faithful! The Drought Is Over!
We had a time of sharing this week. It's always great to hear what God is doing in our midst and in our community.
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Love Completely
We need to love completely. Jesus taught this core principal to his followers by teaching us to serve the people we love, to deal with the hard stuff and to forgive.
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Kingdom Demands for Love: Pt. 1 (AM)
Adam preaches Matt. 5:38-42. Jesus again confronts the religious norms of His day. The Pharisees abused the Mosaic Law to allow personal retaliation, but Jesus outlined both the spirit of the Mosaic Law and the demand of the Kingdom Law for love.
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"Go Talk to Your Father"
To pray in the name of Jesus is to pray, through God's Spirit, to God as "Abba, Father", coming to him in the love and trust that title makes possible.
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Philippians 1:7-8 - Sources of Joyful Affection
Paul bases his affection on the Philippians on the confidence He has in God's work in their lives. The doctrine known as "The Perseverance of the Saints" (or "Eternal Security") is an essential orthodox belief that if adamantly rejection will destroy the Gospel of Grace and create another religion foreign to the teachings of Christ. Paul's affection was not motivated by merely earthly emotions but by Christ’s love for his people. We find in these few verses 3 sources for the affections that Paul had for the Philippians: 1) Affections in the center of his heart, 2) Affections of fellowship, and 3) Affections of Christ Himself. We must learn that our confident affections for others stem from knowing that their salvation (and ours) doesn't rest in their (or our) grip on God, but on God's grip on them (us). You will need to look at these verses and ask yourself: Is my faith a genuine saving faith in Christ - one that is authored by Him, sustained by Him, and will one day be completed by Him. Your answer to that question should convict you know how sinful it is not to have been possessed with the affection of Christ for each other as Paul was.
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Family Dynamics: Godly Speech From A Lament Of King David (Part 1)
The foundation for King David crying to GOD is that he realizes his - and our - speech is a life or death matter.
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Stewarding the Story in Service
This sermon is 3rd in a series on the way we steward the story of the gospel in our lives. Stewarding the Story starts in our souls, transforms our hearts in silence and then works out in our service. That is, in doing good deeds that adorn the gospel, making Jesus appear to be a gracious savior.
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Am I Right About This?
God’s word says that His ways are not our ways. This is a truth that we all acknowledge, yet somehow fail to put into practice. The result is a way of living and doing that feels right, but is often far outside of God’s will. Unfortunately, we are absolutely blind to this until we get ourselves alone with God. Only in His presence do we learn how close or how far from the truth we are living. We must go there. Key Verses:Matt 5:21-24, 18:15-17, 18:21-35, 6:14-15, 1Cor 6:1-7
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The Doctrine of Hell
This may be one of the toughest subjects to discuss in today's modern society. The idea that a loving God would cast people into eternal damnation not only challenges our faith but keeps us from sharing it with others. What is this place called "Hell"? Greg Farrand digs deep into scripture & the wisdom of great philosophers on this subject in an effort to better understand one of the most avoided subjects of our faith. This is profound insight; pivotal & relevant.
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The Amazing Jesus is Accepting
Jesus accepts every one of us no matter who we are or what we look like. His acceptance reaches beyond all barriers. Knowing this fills a void created by the world. People need to know God loves them just like they are and no barriers are too great for His touch. The church needs to eliminate man-made barriers, learn to love people in spite of their sin, reach out to others and keep an eternal focus on living.
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Loving God
Motivated by love for God Christianity produces freedom, joy and hope, motivated by anything else it becomes a burden, an endless list of obligations. What is the motivational fuel of your faith?
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Living In Power
Living in the resurrection means that you are living in power—the Father and the Son both abiding in you through the Holy Spirit. In the context of Jesus’ command to “love one another”, this power is given for the purpose of loving each other with the kind of love he demonstrated through his death and resurrection. This power makes you a source of God’s love, like a “river of living waters.” Your task in light of the resurrection is to love in the power of the Holy Spirit until Jesus comes back.
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Experiencing God's Transforming Power: Love
Today we continue in our new series called Extreme Makeover II -Experiencing the transforming power of Love. We are all in agreement that we want to live in the upper half of life. The way to do that is by living in - walking in - abiding in the Fruit of the Spirit.
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The Story of Ruth
Part two of the series on Fellowship, involving the element of kindness through the story of Ruth & the truths about kindness revealed in the relationships she had with Naomi, Boaz, and God.
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The Father's Love
Jesus' parable of the Prodigal Son viewed from the perspective of the Father. We are called to love the prodigal and welcome him home.
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The Gift of Community (1 John 1:1-7)
Christian community is built around our shared experience of the gospel. Community always begins with God, and God gives us community as a means of transforming our lives more and more into the image of his son. However, community is not merely a tool for growth, but also a gift from God for our joy as well as for our good.
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Amazing Love...God and Forgiveness
In our first message of our new speaking series, "The God Questions," we tackle the tough question of: "Why would God forgive great injustices/sins?" Fasten your seat belt, because the answer just might be the key to a brand new and transformed life for all of us!
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The Hope Of Christians Found In Our Future, Present, And Past
The Apostle John proclaims a future reality, that motivates a present obedience and walk, which is grounded in a past event. Come and see.
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Good Friday: The Triumph Of Love
The crucifixion of Christ produced (at least) two paradoxical outcomes - seeming hopelessness and the triumph of love. Come, taste, and see the love of God for you - today.
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Luke 15.20-24: The Father's Love (Good Friday)
What if you had been a long way from home for awhile? How would you feel if nobody missed you? If nobody was concerned waiting for you at home? How would you feel if you knocked on the door and nobody answered at home? On this Good Friday we see the Father's love for those who are a long way from home.
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Genuine Faith Meditates on the End
People will often speculate about how close we are to the end times and how many prophecies have been fulfilled and how many are left to go. Sometimes this speculation can go too far and cause people to get so wrapped up in when Jesus is coming back that they lose sight of Jesus Himself. The thought that Jesus will come back soon also tends to lead people to withdraw from the world and stop caring about its condition. Peter reminds his readers that the end of all things is at hand and exhorts them to do the exact opposite. He urges us to be self-controlled and hospitable, to serve one another with the gifts that God has given us, and to love each earnestly, because earnest love covers over sins.
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Serve--Imperfectly
Peter was a good friend of Jesus who denied Jesus in His time of need. Jesus forgave him and accepted his love and service. He will do the same for you.
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When Love Comes to Town
Jesus' parade into Jerusalem isn't what it appears to be: a celebration for a political leader. In truth it is an inauguration for a servant of God who loves us enough to suffer.
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