Contributed by David Ward on Jan 22, 2006
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Frederick Buechner in "The Magnificent Defeat":
ß “The love for equals is a human thing—of friend for friend, brother for brother. It is to love what is loving and lovely. The world smiles.
ß The love for the less fortunate is a beautiful thing—the love for those who suffer, for those who are
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Baptist
Contributed by Greg Burcham on Feb 11, 2017
“Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.” 1John 3:1
With everything that has been going on in the news and the world lately, it is safe to say that most of us don’t
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 10, 2008
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LOVE GOD, LOVE PEOPLE
James Moore tells about a man named George. George was a peacemaker with a big heart and wonderful sense of humor. Everyone loved George at church, and he was respected at the hospital where he worked. The reason why so many people loved George was because he was always kind
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"God's love for us is not a love that always exempts us from trials, but rather, a
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Nov 14, 2006
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Illus.: “God’s Loving Son”
A certain rich man died and left no heirs. When his household goods were auctioned off, an elderly lady dressed in shabby garments was the only one to bid on the picture of the dead man’s son. It had been greatly cherished by the wealthy father because his only child
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Denomination:
Wesleyan
Contributed by Bill Butsko on Sep 8, 2007
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“How They Knew God’s Love”
We tried to visit the lepers at least once a month, when they gathered out on the grass, and we went over what they had learned and sought to make clear the way of salvation by the use of Gospel posters.
Sometimes we asked them questions, to see if they really
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Denomination:
Christian Church
CONNECTED TO GOD'S LOVE
A water pipe was designed to carry water. I have learned that when you hook the pipe to the water, and turn on the water, the water flows through the pipe and out of the other end.
When
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Denomination:
Baptist
GOD'S LOVE IS WITH YOU
God’s promise is not that we will not suffer or have grief, pain and trouble; his promise is more amazing than that. It is that he will be with us in all of those moments, he will never leave us and forsake us. God loves us too much to leave us to face these moments alone.
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 9, 2009
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GOD'S LOVE AND THE WEATHER VANE
One day, C.H. Spurgeon was walking through the English countryside with a friend. As they strolled along, the evangelist noticed a barn with a weather vane on its roof. At the top of the vane were these words: GOD IS LOVE. Spurgeon remarked to his companion that he
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GOD'S LOVE IS EVERYTHING
The Pope tells us that "For the Church, instructed by the Gospel, charity is everything because, as Saint John teaches (cf. 1 Jn 4:8, 16) and as I recalled in my first Encyclical Letter, 'God is love'...: everything has its origin in God’s love, everything is shaped by it,
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Denomination:
Catholic
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 7, 2011
GREEK WORDS FOR GOD'S LOVE
The Hebrew words for love are more meaningful than the Greek ones, especially two of them.
aheb, "...The intensity of the meaning ranges from God's infinite affection for his people to the carnal appetites of a lazy glutton..." (Theological Wordbook of the Old
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Denomination:
Independent/Bible
Contributed by David Tack on Feb 24, 2012
ABOUT GOD'S LOVE
Some Things about God’s Love:
- Love is not just a virtue of God. It is God Himself.
- Love is not something God begins.
- God does not “extend His energy to maintain” love.
- The love of God is as eternal as the nature of God.
- The love of God is
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 25, 2007
Mercy is the fulfillment of God’s love and God’s justice
Illustration: mother once approached Napoleon seeking a pardon for her son. The emperor replied that the young man had committed a certain offense twice and justice demanded death. “But I don’t ask for justice,” the mother explained. “I
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the
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Simple as that God loves all, loves you, me and everyone we have ever met and seen, has no favourites hates none, excludes none all are precious and all have been given his greatest of gifts life and Jesus, all receive the former and have to chose to unpack the later to really receive the first
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"God's love for me is inexhaustible, and His love for me is the basis of my love for others. We have to love where we cannot respect and where we must not respect, and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
To believe in Gods love is to believe that Hes passionately interested in each of
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Contributed by David Butcher on Dec 7, 2006
God loves the unlovely... (Perhaps the only human comparison is the continued love of child/parent in the face of cruelty etc. - Fred West’s daughter. Fred West, together with his wife Rose, was a
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Denomination:
Pentecostal
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God’s love is like a bridge that makes reconciliation possible. If you take away the bridge, the separation remains. George Herbert said, “He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass.” (T. T. Crabtree. Ed. The Zondervan 2001 Pastor’s Annual. Howard S. Kalb. “Forgiveness.”
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United Methodist