“To love Him with all your heart…and to love your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12:33). These days, who still knows what Love is? Love, with a capital L? These days, who still knows that Love…
Sermon Illustrations
“The amount you measure out is the amount you will be given back” (Luke 6:38). Somewhere, on the side of a mountain, there is a beautiful place called the “Land of Warm Fuzzies”... The “Land…
“…follow Christ by loving as He has loved you” (Ephesians 5:2). Someone has said that love is a basket with five loaves and two fishes: it’s never enough until you start to give it away.…
“Give, and there will be gifts for you” (Luke 6:38). Several years ago, one of America’s greatest musicians, Leonard Bernstein, died. In 1988, as he was turning seventy, a New York Times Editor asked him…
“He has given us of His Spirit” (I John 4:13). These lines have been adapted from a poem by a Mexican mystic: Alone we are only a spark, but in the Spirit of Love we…
“And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom, and the favor of God was upon Him.” (Luke 2:40). A wise old woman, who had little formal education, taught her granddaughter to memorize this…
“My dear people, since God has loved us so much, we too should love one another” (I John 4:11). In a book called “The Grand Essentials,” the author says... I believe that when life has…
“The bearer of gossip lets out secrets; have nothing to do with chatterers” (Proverbs 20:19). When a Jack and Jill or Bill and Margie fall in love, sooner or later some gossipers are bound to…
“... a time for embracing” (Ecclesiatses 3:5). In a book called “Ragman and other Cries of Faith,” a pastor tells the story of the final illness of a parishioner named Joselyn. He says that during…
“The day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts” (II Peter 1:10). We rejoice in these words of “Love” by Robert G. Ingersoll: Love is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines…
“You are God’s chosen race, His saints; He loves you, and you should be clothed in sincere compassion, in kindness and humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with one another, forgive each other as soon as…
“We love because He first loved us” (I Jn. 4:19). This has been called the most radical thought that has ever entered the mind of man. When you look around and see all the people…
The Apostle Paul’s great hymn of love in First Corinthians is a description of Christian love, for it is a description of Jesus Christ. It begins, “Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous…
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son ” (John 3:16) It is no secret what God can do. What He’s done for others, He can do for you. There is…
In a light-hearted play called “The Curious Savage,” one of the characters, named “Fairy May,” is feeling mighty low because, as she says, “No one has said they love me this live-long day.” To which…
“For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart” (Matthew 12:34). Several days after undergoing major surgery, the patient’s stitches had to be removed. He recalls that he felt a little squeamish about…
“To love is to live according to His commandments: this is the commandment which you have heard since the beginning, to live a life of love” (2 John 1:6). Love is not just looking at…
”Woman, you have great faith! Your wish will come to pass” (Matthew 15:28). A New Jersey-based priest tells of a beautiful scene he once witnessed while driving along a busy thruway: I was driving along…
“My dear people, we are already the children of God” (I John 3:2). It has been said that we live in a time that holds the happiness of the individual paramount. That is to say,…
“There is a season for everything...a time for planting, a time for uprooting what has planted” (Ecclesiastes 3:1,2) The late Clarence W. Cranford often told the story of a wife’s correspondence with her husband who…
