Love

Preparing for the Week of Prayer

Revelation 8:3

… We shall see some who love the Lord Jesus Christ in the Established Church and others who are outside the establishment uniting heartily in prayer. We shall see …

Jacob's Waking Exclamation

Genesis 28:16

… Where the sigh is heaving, where the tear is falling, where the song is rising, where the desire is mounting, where love is burning, hope anticipating, faith abiding …

The Oil and the Vessels

2 Kings 4:6

… Woe unto the ungodly in that day, for then the empty vessels shall be broken to shivers! As they would not receive the oil of Love, they shall …

Opening Services

… opportunity had been given for the utterance of up to now unknown Christian love! Faith in God had done much of that which had been accomplished, and unto …

Particular Election

2 Peter 1:10-11

… And then to that add brotherly love . Be loving towards all the members of Christ’s church; have a love to all the saints, of every denomination. And …

The Exodus

Exodus 12:41

… Oh! the precious blood of Christ! I love it when I think it saves one sinner; but oh! to think of the multitude of sinners that it saves …

The Centurion's Faith and Humility

Luke 7:6-8

… not diminish His Omnipotence! Your vileness does not restrain the heart of His love which freely moves towards the very vilest of the vile! By some means Satan …

First Visit to Scotland

… I only want that one person to make the trip a very fine one ; — but patience, Charles. " Best love to you, my very dear Father, " From your affectionate …

A Troubled Prayer

Psalm 25:18

… It is not from the heart, as though You had ceased to love. It must be from Your unerring judgment where in measure You do rebuke. Tell me …

The Curse Removed

Galatians 3:13

… The cup which His Father gave Him, He drank to its dregs— "At one tremendous draft of love He drank damnation dry"— for all who believe in Him …

Two Wilderness Incidents

Numbers 21:1-6

… would think they must have a sorry kind of master! The God of Love no more wishes to have miserable servants and followers than we do! Many of …

An Unalterable Law

Hebrews 9:22

… You that love not God, when you are in trouble, let your sins deliver you if they can! Let your pleasures comfort you! 14. 15. And one shall …

A Visit to the Tomb

Matthew 28:6

… The same Christ who asked Peter, "Do you love Me?"—the same Jesus who said to all His disciples, "Come and dine"—a real Man has really risen …

Psalm 104

Psalm 104

… Her nest is called a house, because this bird exhibits domestic virtues and maternal love which make her young to be comparable to a family. No doubt this …

'The Old Testament 'Prodigal'

2 Chronicles 33:12

… Human love is thus dissolved in the nobler passion. Manasseh thinks, meditates, considers, reviews his life and loathes himself! He remembers how his father prospered by Jehovah's …

A Practical Discourse

1 Kings 5:14

… our own communion with Christ, our own faith, our own hope, our own love— for if we do not, we shall be in great danger! I fear that …

The Great White Throne

Revelation 20:11

… He who sits on this white throne is Himself the Essence of holiness, justice, truth, and love. O fairest of all Thrones! Who would not be a willing …

The Empty Seat

1 Samuel 20:27

… for the time is short and an account will have to be rendered. Love well those who are spared to you and do them all the good you …

Heman's Sorrowful Psalm

Psalm 88:13

… you will never find it! But look to His Free Grace and Sovereign Love—to the heart of God and to the bleeding wounds of Jesus—and say …

The Sad Wonder

Mark 6:6

… We hold as a cardinal truth that "all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are the called according to His purpose …

Faintness and Refreshing

1 Kings 19:8

… So some of us would do for love what we would not think of doing for gain. And when we know that we are doing and suffering for …

More Room for More People

Luke 14:22

… Bernardo, our brother Orsman and many others deserve our love and esteem, for they have given themselves up to work among the poorest of the poor and the …

Free Will—A Slave

John 5:40

… Thou wouldst not choose to live with a corpse sitting at thy table; nor doth God love that thou shouldst be in his sight. He is angry with …

Grace—the One Way of Salvation

Acts 15:11

… bountiful God— saved by a gift, not by wages—saved by God's love, not by our own doings or merits. This is the Apostle's creed— salvation …

God's Time for Comforting

Psalm 119:82

… God loves His people, but He does not love their sins. Sin is hateful anywhere, but it is most hateful in the Lord's own people. You are …

The Good Shepherd

Psalm 23:1

… I am in want this night of more faith, more love, more holiness, more communion with my Savior." Well, Beloved, the Lord is your Shepherd, you shall not …

Why the Gospel Is Hidden

2 Corinthians 4:3

… You have despised the love that He has lavished upon you. You have forgotten all the care that He has taken of you. I am quite sure that …

A Divine Challenge!

Exodus 8:1

… Divine Love can rake a dunghill and find a diamond! There is no spot where God's Grace cannot and will not go! This, we pray, is our …

High Doctrine

… The first beginnings of divine love in the soul are of God. Leave men to themselves, and the corruption of their nature may fester, and rot, and breed …

His Own Funeral Sermon*

Acts 13:36

… Be willing to live until strength fails you, if God wills it—you can still bear your dying testimony to the Lord's faithful and unchanging love. Do …

The Three Hours' Darkness

Matthew 27:45

… See the freeness of Divine Love! See how God who knows the needs of souls, provides all things necessary for them—water—the Water of Life. And as …

A Definite Challenge for Definite Prayer

Mark 10:51

… The company you now love, you will then hate, and the pleasures you enjoy so much, now, will become as detestable as they were delightful to you! When …

The Errand of Mercy

Luke 19:10

… were merely that He came from Heaven, it would be a proof of love and a token of sympathy, but that is not enough. It is written, "He …

Signs Of The Times

Luke 12:54-57

… Jesus, Sinner! By the love that spared you, I entreat you, come to Jesus! We urge you to come to Him by the love which sent the Savior …

The Unfailing Help

2 Kings 6:27

… And I venture to say this, unconverted man or woman—if we were, all of us who love the Savior, concerned about your soul—if we were to …

Psalm 114

Psalm 114

… thee; in desiring, to seek thee; in seeking, to find; in finding, to love thee; in loving, utterly to loathe my former wickedness; "that living in thy fear …

Praise for Jesus

Genesis 49:8

… nor famine, nor nakedness, nor peril, nor sword could separate them from the love of Christ! And thus His Kingdom was perpetuated during even the darkest ages of …

Gethsemane

Luke 22:44

… hear again the roarings of the many waters which strove to quench the love of the Great Husband of our souls. Several matters will require our brief consideration …

The Spiritual Resurrection

John 11:43

… But if you love them, they are not your grave clothes, but your living clothes—you are doing the work of your father—and you shall have his …

The Only Atoning Priest

Hebrews 10:11-14

… Nothing is so terrible as love when once it is turned to anger. Oil is soft, but how it burns. Inflame love into jealousy and it is cruel …