Love

Why Are Men Saved?

Psalm 106:8

… God sends his gospel not always to the wise and prudent, but unto fools; “He takes the fool and makes him know The wonders of his dying love …

Gracious Renewal

Psalm 51:10

… And let your God sit upon the throne of your love, arrayed in royal apparel. If we would get good out of our prosperity, we should not need …

Portraits Of Christ

Romans 8:29

… When we think of Christ, again, we see One who was full of love-not that love which cants and whines, but the love which is true and …

Distinguishing Grace

1 Corinthians 4:7

… I must thank thee for what thou hast given to me, and I will ascribe it all to thy love, for thou makest me to differ. I have …

"The Ark of His Covenant"

Revelation 11:19

… The Covenant must always be near to God because the love which suggested it changes not. The Lord loves His people with a love which has no beginning …

Grieve Not the Holy Spirit

Ephesians 4:30

… If Brother shall speak evil of Brother, and Sister of Sister, love is absent—and the Spirit of love will not long be present. The dove is the …

Mourning at the Sight of the Crucified

Luke 23:48

… With such a hammer as the doctrine of the Cross, the most flinty heart will be broken! And with such a fire as the sweet love of Christ …

Forgetting God

Hosea 13:6

… Thus it happens that in one thing after another, the love of God and His Word withers—and the love of the world grows. By-and-by, family …

Near the Kingdom, or in It?

Mark 12:34

… And He said unto them in His doctrine, Beware of the scribes which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplace, and the chief …

Concentration and Diffusion

John 12:3

… Deep thought led to burning love and burning love led to immediate action! Beloved Friends, the Church of Christ needs a band of men and women full of …

The Jewel of Peace

2 Thessalonians 3:16

… WHEN the heart is full of love it finds the hand too feeble for its desires. Therefore it seeks relief in intercession and benediction—wishing, praying and blessing …

The Inner Side of Conversion

Jeremiah 31:18-20

… Oh, the heights and depths of sin-forgiving, sin-forgetting Grace! See, Beloved, here is love acknowledging the object of its choice—love confessing its near relationship to …

A Remarkable Benediction

Deuteronomy 33:16

… Now, have not some of you remembrances of the first days when the love of your espousals was warm in you, and when the manifestations of Jesus were …

The Best Thing in the Best Place

Psalm 37:31

… His yoke is easy, and His burden is light to those who trust and love Him. If you trust and love Him, that proves that you have His …

Grappling Irons

Psalm 119:88

… Such love as this I must translate into life—grant that, to me, to live may be love." Those words, "love," and, "live," are very near akin in …

My Prayer

Psalm 119:37

… Can you remain unmoved? Do we gaze into yon dear face, that mirror of love and grief, and feel no love to Him? Can we think of His …

The Pleasures of Piety

Psalm 104:34

… If we love the Father, we love the Son. If we love God, we love all His people! All who are born into the Divine family are the …

The Memorable Hymn

… We will sing of the heavenly Lover, and the many waters which could not quench His love. “Love, so vast that nought can bound; Love, too deep for …

Glorious Predestination

Romans 8:29

… We love Jesus now, and esteem him our head and chief. How will we, when we once get to heaven, love and adore him as our dear elder …

"The Tender Mercy of Our God"

Luke 1:77-79

… Forgiveness comes not to us through any merit of ours, present or foreseen; but only through the tender mercy of our God, and the marvellous visit of love …

Backsliding Healed

Hosea 14:4

… Then we return unto our first Husband, and our first love! With weeping and with supplications we return, and with desire we desire Him in the night— "Love …

The Common Salvation

… If the spirit of Christianity begets in us love to all mankind, much more, my Brothers and Sisters, are we to love those in whom there is the …

The Father and the Son

1 John 1:3

… You watched the father's love and the son's self-sacrifice—and you were filled with admiration of them. Now, that being taken as a supposition, feeble …

The Wailing of Risca

Jeremiah 4:20

… Let us love them—love them we may, love them we should—but let us always learn to love them as dying things. Oh, build not thy nest …

The Works of the Devil Destroyed

1 John 3:8

… I see these accursed evils rousing nations into war, dividing communities with discords, embittering families that otherwise might be full of love. Yes, making men to be the …

Enduring the Cross

… See the greatness of His love which thus led Him to endure the cross and despise the shame, that He might save sinners. Truly Christ’s love “passeth …

Medicine For The Distracted

Psalm 94:19

… God is Love! Oh, what a jewel that sentence is! What a mountain of light! God is Love! Child of sorrow, sing of that God and let your …

Micah's Message for Today

Micah 6:8

… Oh, that we had felt more love to You and had borne a bolder and more consistent testimony to Your love, Your Grace, Your faithfulness! 4. For I …

The Holy Child, Jesus

Acts 4:30

… Pressure from without drives the members of the Church together and so promotes holy love. And when love and zeal come together, then there is such a blessed …

General And Yet Particular

John 17:2

… But you clearly see there must have been a special love intended in the husband towards the wife and so there must be a special love in Christ …

Man's Scorn and God's Succor

Job 16:20

… For Your love is better than wine. Because of the savor of Your good ointments Your name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love You …

Diamond Hinges - 'as' and 'so'

Isaiah 54:9

… If He did not love you, He would not have spread the Table for you. As if you have had any doubt about the continuance of His love …

Chiding and Cheering

John 14:9

… And I am sure he did not know Him so as to love Him. If he had loved Him, he would not have deceived Him, or given Him …

Not Boasting, But Trusting

Ephesians 2:9

… The best and highest of good works are those that spring from love, real love to God! Now, where do you find this? In the man who rejects …

The Bridegroom's Parting Words

Solomon 8:13

… He whom we love dwells in the ivory palaces in which they make Him glad. He is gone up to His Father's Throne and has left these …

The Head and the Body

Ephesians 4:15

… He entreats them, with all lowliness, meekness and long-suffering, to bear and to forbear with one another in love. He most touch-ingly and tenderly pleads his …

To Those Who Feel Unfit for Communion

2 Chronicles 30:17-20

… The Law of Love is as binding on us as ever the Law of Works could have been. We are still called to obedience—the obedience of faith …

Lecture II: Anecdotes From The Pulpit.

… They count a little love to be no love, great love to be but little, strong love to be but weak, and the highest love to be infinitely …

The Heart Of Flesh

Ezekiel 36:26

… Some there are who have a tenderness which arises from timidity, a tenderness which sometimes inclines them to good, not because they love the good, but because they …

Psalm 97

Psalm 97

… Get mortifying graces, especially love to God, for those that love the Lord, will hate evil. And the more they love him, the more they will hate it …