Explore messages that delve into the profound connection between genuine love for God and committed action. These resources highlight how true devotion manifests in active obedience to His commands and a life dedicated to godly values, not just spiritual gifts. You'll find sermons emphasizing practical attitudes towards others and the call to offer ourselves as living sacrifices. Discover how scriptures like John 14, Romans 12, and Ephesians 5 illuminate this essential truth. Keep exploring to deepen your understanding of love's transforming power.
The passage in John 14:15-31 emphasizes that loving God and obedience are interconnected. Jesus says that if we love Him, we will obey His commandments.
Have you ever known you’re just supposed to do something and you just didn’t want to do it. Maybe it was someone like, when you’re younger your parents told you to do something and you thought, ‘you know, I just don’t wa you just called the person, ‘ok, I’m going to be late, sorry, I can’t do anything about it, I can’t make it’. You just decided you were going to blow it off.
In this sermon, the speaker continues on verse 9 of Romans 12, which emphasizes the attitudes that Christians should have towards one another. The first command is for love to be without pretensions, without any dark element of manipulation or self-interest.
We are going to continue on verse 9, that’s where we stopped last time if I’m not mistaken. Let’s pick up from there. We’ve been reading the first 8 verses of Romans, chapter 12, deriving our meditation from these verses. We will continue this today.
The sermon is focused on the importance of living a life of Godly values and character, rather than just displaying spiritual gifts or emotions. The speaker emphasizes the need for persistence, discipline, honesty, and excellence in our daily lives, which will ensure success and peace in the long run.
Romans 12 beginning with verse 1: " .... therefore I urge you brothers in view of God’s mercy to offer your bodies as living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God. with many members and these members do not all have the same function so in Christ we who are many form one body and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts according to the grace given to us.
The governing principle of Ephesians 5:22 is to submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. The Apostle Paul provides three examples of how to apply this principle in different areas of life: the family, parents and children, and slaves and masters.
We’re nearing the end of our study of Ephesians and we are ending chapter 5 with a few verses on 5:22, Ephesians. Actually we should read verse 21 because even though there’s a division here, as we well know, the Bible w part of the previous portion, but it also belongs to the following portion. And it says in verse 21: “….
The happiest and most content people tend to be those who are best at loving others. However, this is not inherent in human nature and goes against our survival instinct.
God bless you all tonight. It turns out that I think, I believe that the word that the Lord has given us for tonight is precisely about, you know, is there a relationship between giving and between of the power of the Lo power of the Lord, access to his power, access to his joy and access to what we want of the Lord? And maybe we should start this evening with an observation.
Kris, a teacher and disciple of God, speaks about love, transformation, and freedom. He invites the audience to fully participate in his message by listening with an open and honest heart and mind, raising their hands to answer questions, and considering the message in light of their own lives.
Kris is involved in a ministry of teaching, in instruction and discipling and we’ve known him for many years. We have been meeting with Kris over the years, we know him as a man who serves de Lord. Welcome and again we invite you to feel free to do as the Lord leads you and to bless us with what God has given to you this morning. Well, hello.
The speaker reflects on the concept of love and how it has been a prominent theme in their life this year, particularly as they celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary and become grandparents for the first time. They emphasize the importance of knowing God as a loving Father and not basing one's understanding of Him on negative experiences or beliefs.
This year, more than ever God has led me to think and meditate upon the concept of love. You know, it’s possible that sometimes when you get to a certain age in your life you begin to evaluate your life and to think abou And it always leads us to think about how did I get to that point, and also to think about the future as well. And I have discovered that the greatest treasure that I have is the love of my heavenly Father.
The speaker discusses the character of Daniel in the Old Testament and how he exemplifies integrity, taking unpopular positions, and taking great risks for the values of the Kingdom of God. The speaker relates Daniel's situation to the current context of living in a society that is against Godly principles, specifically mentioning the legalization of homosexual marriage in Massachusetts.
“But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself in this way. Now God, caused the official to show favor and sympathy to Daniel. Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat royal food and treat your servants in accordance with what you see.” So he agreed to this and tested them for ten days, and at the end of the ten days they l