Love

Pure Fun

… The eleventh commandment is, that we are to love one another; and then, according to some people, the twelfth is, “Thou shalt pull a long face on Sunday …

Faith.

… We are heralds to the sons of men, not of the law of Sinai, but of the love of Calvary. We come to them, not with the command …

The Holy Spirit in Connection with Our Ministry

… I believe that many brethren who preach human responsibility deliver themselves in so legal a manner as to disgust all those who love the doctrines of grace. On …

A Holiday Pastime.—Essay on Popery

… All the Popish arguments do but prove that they love darkness rather than light. The Bible is a light unto our feet, and a lamp unto our path …

Unknown Depths and Heights

Luke 23:34

… The Lord knows that I have done this out of love to your souls. I would bring you all to Jesus if I could—but I cannot do …

Father’s Furlough, and how I Shared it

… He always had unstinted praise for a sermon which exalted Jesus, and proclaimed His dying love. "That was a very sweet sermon," he used to say when such …

Psalm 140

Psalm 140

… The cords of love are pleasant, but the cords of hate are cruel as death itself. They have spread a net by the wayside. Where it will be …

The Horns of the Altar

1 Kings 2:30

… His love and power can never fail a sinner's confidence. Wherefore, may God the Holy Spirit lead you to resolve, "If I must die, I will die …

A Mingled Strain

Psalm 51:7

… and superficial, for they do not know the heights and depths of redeeming love—neither are they established in the Doctrines of Grace—and all because they were …

The Pastors’ College, 1861-1878

… I have more cause than many of our brethren for holding in grateful love the memory of our now glorified President.” Mr. Spurgeon could scarcely have imagined that …

The Dual Nature and the Duel Within

Romans 7:23

… The ungodly know no such inward warfare! They sin and they love it—but where there is spiritual conflict the Grace of God is present! We do sin …

Sermons — Their Matter

… They love to have the words themselves explained and expounded. The many are not always sufficiently capable of grasping the sense apart from the language—of gazing, so …

Exhortation—"Set Your Heart"

1 Chronicles 22:19

… You must be startled, if not with thunderbolts, yet with the sweet heart-searching love of Christ. You must be thoroughly awake and, when you are so, then …

Psalm 53

Psalm 53

… The amazing love of Christ—"While we were enemies, Christ died for us." Robert Murray Macheyne, 1813-1843. Verse 1. There is no God. ny'is properly a …

Israel in Egypt

Revelation 15:3

… I rejoice that all who love the Lord below, must at last attain to heaven. I do not believe with some that men may start on the road …

Kept From Iniquity

Psalm 18:23

… iniquity," then you shall also be able to say with David, "I will love You, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my Rock, and my Fortress, and …

The Way of Salvation

Acts 4:12

… I believe he will delight to save thee, that the wonders of his love and his grace may be the more manifestly known. Do you still say that …

Pride Catechized

Job 34:33

… Your majesty, the glory of Your righteousness and the supreme splendor of Your love, bow us down to accept Your Grace and to become Yours forever and ever …

One War Over and Another Begun

Judges 6:22-24

… fear when Jesus draws near! Though He comes with no feeling but of love, no thought but of mercy, no sentence but of free forgiveness, yet the heart …

The Minister’s Fainting Fits

… They speak all the more sweetly of His faithfulness, and are the more firmly established in His love. Such mature men as some elderly preachers are, could scarcely …

The Great Supreme

Deuteronomy 32:3

… to God's Mercy! Believe that His arms are wide—believe that His love is deep; believe that His grace is broad—believe that He is All-Powerful …

Plenteous Redemption

Psalm 103:7

… I, who have sold for nought a heritage divine, shall have it back unbought,—the gift of love, says Christ, e’en mine. Oh! hear it, then! The …

Sin Immeasurable

Psalm 19:12

… Oh! boundless love, that covers all my faults. My poor hearer, believe on Christ now. God help thee to believe. May the Spirit now enable thee to trust …

The Evil and Its Remedy

Ezekiel 9:9

… Our Lord Jesus Christ was all love, but he was all honesty too. “Never man spake like that man,” when he came to speak of the punishment of …

Psalm 82

Psalm 82

… from the mixture of a private or passionate spirit, and filled with a love to, and a delight in, impartial judgment and righteousness. Secondly, that being called gods …

Omniscience

Genesis 16:13

… for thee; and wilt be washed in his blood, and thou wilt trust his mercy and his love to be thine everlasting redemption when the world shall end.

Psalm 47

Psalm 47

… Our beauty, our boast, our best treasure, lies in having such a God to trust in, such a God to love us. Selah. Yes, pause, ye faithful songsters …

The Sympathy of the Two Worlds

… The love of the Eternal Father which cheers the celestial, makes glad the terrestrial too. Rest assured that though the glory of the celestial be one and the …

Divine Destruction and Protection

Ezekiel 17:29

… that whatever belongs to him is better than anyone else can procure for love or money, be it his house, or his horse, the water from his well …

Psalm 93

Psalm 93

… The course of God's providence is one of constant interposition; for "all things work together for good to them that love God." Only these interpositions are not …

Light at Evening Time

Zechariah 14:7

… black clouds of Popery seemed to have quenched the sunlight of God’s love and grace upon the world; in those dark dim ages when the gospel seemed …

Profit and Loss

Mark 8:36

… I found a text once, which said, ” The love of money is the root of all evil;” but as for the money itself, I can see very little …

A Vision of the Latter-Day Glories

Isaiah 2:2

… There shall be no snow upon its summit, but the warmth and light of Jehovah’s love, there shall be no chasms in its side wherein souls may …

Sharing Christ's Life

John 14:19

… That is only covering them up fairly with a lie in their right hand—but to preach of dying love and of rising power, to tell of pardons …

The March!

Numbers 10:35

… and death, boldly Your Truth declare And publish, with our last breath, Your love and guardian care." II. We shall now take the text IN ITS REFERENCE—TO …

The Priceless Prize

Philippians 3:8

… by the living God, unless you are beside yourselves, if you have any love to your own souls, fly to Christ! Seek the Lord! Try to lay hold …

Illustrations in Preaching

… Rise, then, my friends, ye people of His love; rise and climb with me the mighty stairway whose steps are changed from granite to porphyry, and from porphyry …

The Vanguard and Rereward of the Church

Isaiah 52:12

… Your troubles have been already weighed for you in the scales of his love; your labour is already set aside for you to accomplish by the hand of …

The Sound in the Mulberry Trees

2 Samuel 5:24

… blessed haven of faith—that haven which is protected by the atonement of Christ, and by the bar of everlasting love. God bless you, for Jesus’ sake! Amen.

Facts and Inferences

Psalm 37:35-37

… golden gates appear! Ah, then my spirit faints To reach the land I love, The bright inheritance of saints, Jerusalem above! 'Forever with the Lord!' Father, if'tis …