Sermon Illustrations

Tag: love

  • The crime novelist, Agatha Christie,

    The crime novelist, Agatha Christie, was married to the archaeologist, Sir Max Malowan, and she used to say that being married to an archaeologist had a certain advantage: because the older she got the more interested he became in her! To love someone is to seek to get to know them better and better. And,…

  • We only find security in

    We only find security in God’s love towards us, when we realise how much he once had reason to hate us. Phil MooreClick to Tweet Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • We notice also that Paul

    We notice also that Paul finds a basic unity, even identity between the love of God as it is shown in the objective, factual event of Christ’s death on the cross and as it is experienced “in the heart” by teh believer (v5b). An emotional feeling of God’s love in itself, is little comfort to…

  • Paul never thinks of God’s

    Paul never thinks of God’s love for us apart from the cross and he never thinks of Christ’s dying for us apart from the Father’s giving of the Son. Douglas MooClick to TweetFrom the book “Epistle to the Romans (New International Commentary on the New Testament)” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • I once knew a good

    I once knew a good woman who was the subject of many doubts, and when I got to the bottom of her doubt, it was this: she knew she loved Christ, but she was afraid he did not love her. "Oh!" I said, "that is a doubt that will never trouble me; never, by any…

  • Love requires the ability to

    Love requires the ability to choose. The reason we’re free to disobey God is that we need to be free to love if we are to be human, and made in the image of a God who loves. Love can only be love if it’s a free choice. A husband forced up the aisle at…