Love One Another – Sermon Illustration Ideas

Connection And Encouragement

Connection, Encouragement, Following God, Love One Another, Mission

At the end of the film Paterson (directed by Jim Jarmusch, Bleecker Street, 2016), the protagonist has given up his dreams of being a…

Pay It Forward

Caring for Others, Kindness, Love One Another, Loving Others, Praying

The film Pay It Forward (directed by Mimi Leder, Warner Bros, 2000) follows a seventh-grade boy who is given an assignment to develop a…

Reciprocation

Godly Relationships, Love One Another, Reciprocation

A teeter-totter is a traditional playground activity that is played between two people. It is based on the principle of reciprocation. In order to…

Love For God Seen Through Loving Others

Love For God, Love One Another, Loving Others, Loyalty, Priorities

A paradigm that has a loyal, singularly focused following is NFL teams. One website surveyed fan loyalty based on whether fans stay loyal after…

Love Is More Than Words

Love, Love One Another, Relationships, Serving

Love is celebrated in Christian hymns and praise songs, as well as an avalanche of popular music. One song includes the refrain, “And they’ll…

Endurance And Patience In Marriage

Endurance, Love One Another, Marriage, Patience, Relationship, Struggles, Support

The depiction of the relationship between Jim and Mae Braddock in the movie Cinderella Man (directed by Ron Howard, Universal Pictures, 2005) is an…

Sacrificing For The Sake Of Others

Helping others, Living Like Jesus, Love One Another, Self-Sacrifice

A Town Like Alice tells the story of Jean Paget, who was captured, along with a group of women and children, by the Japanese…

Take A Stand

Duty, Love One Another, Loyalty, Protection

During the Holocaust, some people put their lives at risk by hiding and protecting Jews. One example is Helene Jacobs, who helped arrange false…

“Happy In The Midst Of Dangers And Inconveniences”

Danger, God's Presence, Inconvenience, Life in Christ, Love, Love One Another, Trials, Tribulation

In his autobiography, Daniel Boone wrote about his explorations of the Kentucky wilderness. As he remembered fondly the nights of constant wolf howls and…

Exercise Kindness

Beliefs, Charity, Deuteronomy 15:8, Giving, Isaiah 58:10, Isaiah 58:7, Job 31:16-22, Kindness, Love, Love One Another, Loving Others, Matthew 25:35, Matthew 5:42, Matthew 6:1-4, Proverbs 19:17, Psalm 112:5-9, Servanthood, Taking care of others, Tradition

Rupertus Meldenius, a 17th century German theologian, was quoted as saying, “In essentials unity, in nonessentials liberty, in all things charity.” There are essential things…