We continue this morning with our study of I Corinthians as we move now into chapter 8. This chapter deals with a question that is very relevant to our Christian lives today, and that is, “How much should I let other people’s views control my actions?” Or, to put it another way, “How much do…
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Sermons on Love
The story is told of a Post Office worker who found an unstamped hand-written envelope, addressed to God. It obviously couldn’t be delivered to God, so he decided to open it himself and he found that it was written by an elderly lady who was all stressed out because her entire savings of $200…
Back in 1967, there was a song written that still remains popular among people of all ages. The Beatles wanted to write something that would speak to people of all nations. So, John Lennon wrote the song, “All You Need is Love.” And that song became very popular. Probably (1) because it was the Beatles,…
This morning, my sermon comes from the book of Obadiah, so if you’d like to follow along in your Bibles, please turn to the table of contents so that you can find it. Because, let’s be honest, Obadiah is one of the more obscure books of the Bible. And it’s only 21 verses long,…
I heard about a preacher who had all of his teeth pulled and new dentures were made for him. The next Sunday, he got in the pulpit and only preached for 10 minutes. The second Sunday, he preached for 20 minutes. But, on the third Sunday, he preached for an hour and a half. When…
We’ve talked about a lot different aspects of love throughout this series, but I’ve saved the most challenging lesson of all until the end. This morning, I want us to take love one step further and talk about the need to love our enemies. Jesus said in Luke 6…
In Jesus’ day, eating with people was a big deal. That’s because if you ate with someone, it meant that you were interested in being friends with him or her. It meant that you accepted that person, and it was a sign to everyone else…
This morning, I want to begin by making a statement, and then I’ll spend the rest of the lesson trying to explain why I think this statement is true. I believe that one of the reasons we have difficulty loving people is because we don’t have a good understanding of….
Some of us are like Linus in this Peanuts comic strip. Apparently, Linus has been thinking about becoming a doctor because Lucy says to him, “You, a doctor! Ha! That’s a big laugh!” She says, “You could never be a doctor. You know why?”….
This morning, we continue in our series on “Love in Action”, but I’d like for us to transition a little bit from how we should love to who we should love. A few years ago, there was a preacher in the Denver area by the name of Jay Pathak who met every month with a…