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The Key to Intimacy with God (4 of 8)
by Jeff Schreve
If you have your Bible, please turn to Psalm 62. We're in a series on the Psalms called ''Roller Coaster.'' We're learning how to face the ups and downs of life, and Psalms speaks so much to the ups and the downs of life. When Debbie and I first got married, we got married in March of 1986, we went on our honeymoon. We actually got two honeymoons. We went to Galveston for a couple of days right after we got married. And then, Debbie had to go back and teach school for one week and then she had Spring Break, so we went on our bigger honeymoon after a week of being married. And after about 3 months of being...
How to Love as God Loves
by David Cook
One of America's most popular T.V. shows over the last few years is, ''American Idol.'' This past years show featured a young lady named Mandisa Hundley - Mandisa is a heavy set woman and Simon had made a sarcastic remark upon seeing her questioning: ''Do we have a bigger stage this year?'' When she entered the room to learn the judges' verdict of whether she would go on the next round or be cut, Mandisa looked right at Simon and addressed him: ''Simon, a lot of people want me to say a lot of things to you. But this is what I want to say - yes, you hurt me, and I cried, and it was painful. It really was, but I want...
First Love (1 of 3)
by Jeff Strite
At the banquet of Tom and Susan's 25th wedding anniversary, Tom was asked to give his friends a brief account of the benefits of a marriage of such long duration. ''Tell us, Tom, just what is it you have learned from all those wonderful years with your wife?'' Tom responded, ''Well, I've learned that marriage is the best teacher of all. It teaches you loyalty, forbearance, meekness, self-restraint, forgiveness (pause) and a great many other qualities you wouldn't need to know if you'd stayed single.'' APPLY: God loves marriage. He performed the first marriage in the garden between Adam and Eve. In fact, the main reason God...
Falling in Love with God (2 of 15)
by Rick Ferguson
Series Verse: but grow in the grace and knowledge of our lord and savior Jesus Christ (2 peter 3:18). Question: How many of you men would be content to be married to a wife who faithfully: - Cooked your meals - Did your laundry - Cleaned your house But did not really love you? How many of you wives would be content to be married to a man who: - Provided you with nice things - Worked faithfully - Took you on nice trips - Remained faithful to you But did not truly love you? Question: Can I ask you a simple, yet profound, personal question? - Do you love God? - Do you love God as much as you did when you first got...
God, Is It True You Really Love Me? (1 of 5)
by Rick White
Series Introduction: Questions. In life we all have them; Children, teens, adults of all ages and stages. Sometimes our questions are birthed out of our spirit of inquisitiveness. We simply want to know more and gain more knowledge. However, as we grow older our questions are more often times linked to the pain of life experiences. You know what I am talking about; things like death, disease, and disappointments. It is those things that are beyond our ability to control, our capacity to understand, and our strength to process and manage. It is the kind of question that only God could answer. Do you remember when you were...
Love God with All You've Got
by Tony Nester
If you ever approach the door of an orthodox Jewish home you’ll find a container attached to the door post. It will be marked with the word, ‘‘Shaddai,’’ which is a Hebrew name for God meaning ‘‘Almighty.’’ Inside the container will be a small piece of parchment inscribed with the Scripture that Jews believe are the foundation of their belief in God. Every time they walk through their doors they are reminded of the central conviction of their faith. If you open the container, called a Mezuzah, and read the little scroll inside you will find the words of today’s Scripture from Deuteronomy 6:4-5: ‘‘Hear, O Israel: The LORD is...
The Insanity of God's Love (2 of 3)
by Kerry Shook
You look a little worried. We’ve all heard the myth of Cupid, the chubby little cherub. The boy with the bow and arrow. He flies around looking for some unsuspecting fool and then Cupid takes his arrow of love and shoots it. You look surprised. But not as surprised as I am. Cupid blindsides you with his arrow of love and then you fall helplessly completely insanely head over heels in love with the next person you see. Now we all know that Cupid is just a myth but really you wouldn’t know it the way a lot of people think about love because when it comes to love many people think you are just going through life...
Acknowledgement: Developing the Love of God
by Mark Baker
The Apostle Paul said that if we love God, we then are known by Him. The Apostle John said if we love, we are born of God and know God. Loving God and knowing God go hand in hand. If you don't love God, you can not know Him, and if you do not know Him you can not love Him. You might say well I love God, however God's Word clearly tells us what loving Him is. Jn:15:12: This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 17: These things I command you, that you love one another. If we don't love one another we don't love God. Jesus said in John's gospel; Jn.14:15. If you love Me, keep...
Do I Really Love God? (4 of 12)
by Jonathan McLeod
Everyone who claims to be a Christian would say they love God. But if we examined everything we did during the past week, how evident would it be that we love God? Authentic love is more than words or feelings. Love is demonstrated by our actions. Am I really devoted to God? John writes, ''Do not love the world or the things in the world'' (v. 15). (In this context, ''the world'' does not mean people, as in John 3:16, or the earth.) In verse 16, John tells us what is ''in the world'': (1) ''the desires of the flesh,'' (2) ''the desires of the eyes,'' and (3) ''pride in possessions.'' To ''love the world'' is to have the values of the world (i.e., to live for...
A Look at Love
by James Merritt
Love-just think about that word. That one word can make a heart flutter uncontrollably. It can make the toughest man blush. It can make a grown man cry and women jump for joy. The world is almost obsessed with this thing called love. The world sings about it, ''What the world needs now is love sweet love.'' Or, ''You're nobody till somebody love you.'' ''It's love that makes the world go around.'' We have an insatiable desire to write about it. Almost without exception, you can walk into any store and just see shelf after shelf lined with romantic novels. Love has taken over the airways. Millions of people await breathlessly from...
Learning to Love
by Adrian Rogers
John chapter 13 and verse 34 and verse 35. ''A new commandment I give unto you that ye love one another as I have loved you.'' Now they've been told to love before but it's a new commandment because they've never been told to love this way before. They're to love one another as I have loved you that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples if ye have love one for another. You don't need a lapel pin. You don't need a bumper sticker. By this shall all men know that you are my disciples if you have love one for the other. I'm not against a lapel pin. I'm not against a bumper sticker. But dear...
A Love Story
by David Cawston
Introduction: A story is told that while Benjamin Franklin was in Europe he met with several of his peer a sort of "meeting of the minds". They came together to review several pieces of literature. Mr. Franklin chose to read a passage that evoked a curious response from the group. "This story must be published" the group chorused. "What is it's title?" This is really only part of a story, Mr. Franklin replied, "from a book that you have often ridiculed!" The group protested and insisted that they would not have rejected a story of such impact. "In fact," Mr. Franklin continued, "the story that so moved you all is the Book of Ruth...
Love's Extravagance
by Jerry Vines
We're beginning now with the chapters that have to do with our Lord's passion and with His resurrection. I want to speak this morning on the subject, Love's Extravagance, and I think you will follow the thought as we follow on down through these verses. The Lord Jesus has completed His public ministry. In the first verse of this chapter we are told that He has finished all of these sayings referring in particularly to chapters 24 and 25 where Jesus has told His disciples what to expect at the end of the age. He has now completed the public ministry of His teaching, of His healing, and of His teaching. His attention now is turned...
How Do I Know If I Found True Love? (3 of 6)
by Scott Maze
Just a reminder as we continue in the marriage series, we have free counseling available in the Encourager's Room today. Here's our focus today: How Do I Know if I Have Found True Love? Now, I'm going to only answer this question for the men, today. Women, I'll help you find your true love in the weeks to come. But all the ladies, you can relax and take today off . Next week: What Happens When We Cannot Get Along? I'll share some recent stories of how Traci has done me wrong and I have forgiven her. There's ancient view of marriage and there's a modern view of marriage. The ancient view of marriage is often...
Work and Witness in a Life of Love (7 of 13)
by Drew Hunter
If you're new to us, we usually move through different books of the Bible together. We believe that the Bible is God's word to us, and that he continues to speak to us through it. And so we are taking this Fall to move through the First and Second letters to the Thessalonians. Next Sunday we'll be taking a break from this letter. We're going to have a guest speaker with us, and I'm really looking forward to it. Dr. Steve Wellum is going to be here. He is a professor at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. He is also teaching a Systematic Theology class this fall at the new Indianapolis Theological...
Love
by Bob Wickizer
When you have come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, and you possess it, and settle in it, you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place that the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his name. You shall go to the priest who is in office at that time, and say to him, ''Today I declare to the Lord your God that I have come into the land that the Lord swore to our ancestors to give us.'' When the priest takes the basket from your hand and sets...
Real Love (17 of 19)
by Michael White
Remind ushers to come down I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect....9 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. 10 Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. 11 Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. 12 Rejoice in hope...
Love and Marriage (1 of 7)
by Jim Perdue
Today, I'm beginning a brand new sermon series that will take us all the way through Father's Day. It's a series on love, marriage, parenting, kids, family, and finances. I've called this series Wisdom for the Family because we'll be studying selected scriptures in the Book of Proverbs. Today, we begin our study in Proverbs 5 as we study the subject, Love and Marriage. READ Proverbs 5:1-7, 15-19, 21 One of the oldest father-son talks in history is recorded in the book of Proverbs. Solomon, the world's wisest man in his day, was known throughout the surrounding nations for possessing wisdom and insight into all the...
