Sermon illustrations: Love

Abigail Adams on Racism

When John Adams, our second president, was living in Philadelphia he and Abigail befriended a boy...

She Chose Radiation

A thirty-six year old mother was discovered to be in the advanced stages of terminal cancer. One...

Madalyn Murray O’Hair

Madalyn Murray O’Hair vanished in 1995. When her diaries were found she often cried, “Somebody,...

Love Forgives

Corrie Ten Boom and her family resisted the Nazis by hiding Jews in their home. They were...

Love Displayed

The story is told of a woman who left her husband. The husband called the police and filed a “...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a prisoner in a Soviet prison in Siberia. He became so weak and...

The Testimony She Left Behind

Lauren McCain was one of the students killed at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007. The freshman from...

The Groom Is Coming

A young man, who was to return home and be married, came sooner than was expected. He did not...

Tug-of-War With an Alligator

On a hot summer day in south Florida a little boy decided to go for a swim in the old swimming hole...

She Gave Her Life

A Hebrew lady once told how seeing another Christian’s faith converted her: She was fleeing the...

Serving the Lord

One night a cobbler dreamed that the next day Jesus was coming to visit him. The dream seemed so...

Willing to Die for His Princess

The historian Xenophon states, that when Cyrus had taken captives including a young prince of...

The Stockholm Syndrome

“The term Stockholm Syndrome first occurred in 1973 at an attempted bank robbery in...

A Forgiving Wife

The English artist George Romney fell in love and married a young lady, but then left her so that...

Praising God in the Midst of Trials

I visited one who was ill in bed; and, after having buried seven of her family in six months, had...

The Seven Years of the Married Cold

First year of marriage: “Sugar dumpling, I’m really worried about my baby girl. You’ve got a bad...

Selfish Love

Girl: “Do you love me?” Boy: “Yes, Dear.” Girl: “Would you die for me?” Boy: “No. Mine is an...

A Divorce Averted

Newspaper columnist George Crane told the story of a wife who came into his office wanting to...

Can You Love Sin?

“If I had a brother who had been murdered, what would you think of me if I ... daily consorted with...

Magnets and Mothers

A teacher gave her class of second graders a lesson on the magnet and what it does. The next day in...

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