Love

God's Own Gospel Call

Isaiah 55:3

… Against Your terrors long I strove, But who can stand against Your love? Love conquers even me." Furthermore, the Lord pleads with you by the fact that your …

The Song of a City, and the Pearl of Peace

Isaiah 26:3

… We inherit the spirit of children, the spirit of love and of unquestioning confidence. Everything is quiet, for we dwell in our Father's house. Look upward, and …

Setting Jesus at Nothing—Treating Him with Contempt

Luke 23:11

… Dear woman, I know what your daily burden must be if the husband who is so dear to you does not love your Savior whom you love with …

Gray Hairs

Hosea 7:9

… Brothers and Sisters, see that you love one another! "Little children, love one another," said John, "for love is of God." And if you do not love the …

Christ's Past and Present Witnesses

John 15:27

… When we get near to Christ in holy fellowship and commune much with Him in private prayer, we find that our love for good things becomes very strong …

Alone, Yet Not Alone

John 16:31

… God's first love to us is from Himself. There is another love that grows in His heart because of our love to His Son. You love your …

The God of Peace

Romans 15:33

… His blood sprinkled on the fiery wrath of God turned it to love, or rather that which must have broken forth in wrath, though it was love for …

The Tender Grapes

Solomon 2:13

… I hope that we love Christ better, now, than we did then, but there was a vividness about our first love which we do not always realize in …

A Mighty Saviour

Isaiah 63:1

… And finally, my dear hearers, there are many of you here this morning who have no love to God, no love to Christ; but you have a desire …

The Keynote of the Year

Psalm 103:1

… Spend some time in that quiet, rapt devotion which gets beyond the use of words into a communion of gratitude and love. Words are weak when Love has …

"This Year Also"

Luke 13:6

… We are here "this year also" as the result of love's pleading and in pursuance of love's designs. The wicked man should count that the Lord …

Jude's Doxology

… If there is anything which is the very essence and soul of Christianity, it is brotherly love—but brotherly love seems to be altogether forgotten by these people …

The Crown of Thorns

Matthew 27:29

… Was ever grief like Mine?" What a descent His love to us compelled Him to make! See how He fell to lift us from our Fall! Do not …

Sunshine in the Heart

Psalms 37:4

… a perfect rest from all earthly care; a perfect resignation of yourself into God’s hands; an intense confidence in his love to you; a divine love to …

A New Year's Benediction

Hebrews 13:5

… If we should grow so feeble that we could not lift our hand to our lip, yet the eternal love of Jehovah would not have diminished, no, not …

Ephraim Bemoaning Himself

Jeremiah 31:18

… At any rate, a true sight of sin soon turns a man most thoroughly from his former love of it. There once lived a great religious impostor, of …

A High Day in Heaven

Luke 15:10

… There is no earthly father who can love as God loves—and if all the love of all the fathers in the world were made into one, it …

Perfect Justification and Perfect Pardon

Jeremiah 50:20

… I will love You, O LORD, my strength What a blessed "I will"—"I will love You"! He does love the Lord, and he declares that he will …

The Gentleness Of Jesus

Matthew 12:19

… You despised love, and Love grown angry now despises you! You rejected the Truth of God, and now Truth shall bind you in chains of fire forever! You …

The Messages of Our Lord's Love

Mark 16:7

… Infinite wisdom directs infinite love. And when infinite love takes the pen to write a promise, infallible wisdom dictates every syllable. Jesus does not forget, because He spoke …

The Security Of Believers—Or, Sheep Who Shall Never Perish

John 10:27-30

… And, while you read the love of Christ in His death, you must read the Father's love quite as much in that great sacrifice. It is true …

Life More Abundant

John 10:10

… He has forgotten hope and bid farewell to love. You pity such a man every time you think of him. To possess the love and esteem of our …

The Chief Of Sinners

1 Timothy 1:15

… Well might she love much! And many a loving spirit do I know, and there are some very dear to God's Church here, who love their Lord …

Christ's Crowning Glory

Psalm 21:5

… But to get men to so love you that they would willingly die for you—to get them to so love you that they would sooner cease to …

Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled

John 14:1

… It is true you have to work hard! Yes, but think of the Huguenot galley slave in the olden times, who for the love of Christ was bound …

Compassion on the Ignorant

Hebrews 5:2

… You also need great compassion to insure your own perseverance, for if you do not love the children of your class, if you do not love the people …

Sin—Its Springhead, Stream and Sea

Psalm 106:7

… Ethiopia and Seba for You." It was love, wondrous love to Israel, which made the Lord to show His signs in Egypt, His wonders in the land of …

Psalm 18

Psalm 18

… Love's resolve, love's logic, love's trials, love's victories. James Hervey has two sermons upon "Love to God" from this text. Verse 2.The many …

Good News for Loyal Subjects

1 Corinthians 15:25

… His Person is the incarnation of love. His teachings are the doctrines of love. His precepts are the rule of love. His Spirit is the creator of love …

How To Converse With God

Job 13:22

… If our Beloved cries, "Rise up My Love, My fair One, and come away," let us not linger for an instant! If He cries "Awake, awake, put on …

Joseph And His Brothers

Genesis 45:3-5

… And thirdly, the manifestation which Joseph afterward made to his brothers, is but a faint representation of the declaration of love which Jesus makes to repenting spirits when …

Am I Sought Out?

Isaiah 62:12

… Broad as earth and longer Than ocean's widest wave— This is the love that sought us, This is the love that bought us, This is the love …

The Divine Discipline

Deuteronomy 32:11

… All selfishness is idolatry! All repining against the Providence of God has in it the element of rebellion against the Most High! If I love my own will …

Rest As a Test

Jeremiah 6:16

… What is his motive? Gratitude, not self-interest! Love to God, not love to himself! No longer is the slave-driver's whip cracked in his ear! No …

The Safeguards of Forgiveness

2 Samuel 12:13

… I will love them freely. That is a grand sentence! God could not love us anyway else, for what price could you and I bring with which to …

Foretastes of the Heavenly Life

Deuteronomy 1:25

… At another time, I may love Heaven better for another thing, but, just lately, I have learned to love Heaven as A PLACE OF SECURITY. We have been …

The Lowly King

Zechariah 9:9

… Those whom we love we elevate to an equality with ourselves; or, rather, we go down to them. Love is a charming leveller. Jesus had so much love …

Ho! Ho!

Isaiah 55:1

… His dear, sweet love which He pours into the souls of those who love Him is recompense for any sorrow they may have endured for His sake—a …

A Solemn Embassy

2 Corinthians 5:20

… Oh! by the love of the Father, by the, blood of Jesus, by the love of the Spirit, I beseech you, sinner, believe and live! By the cross …

An Earnest Invitation

Psalm 2:12

… Even now my soul gives the kiss of deep and sincere affection. “Yes, I love thee and adore, O for grace to love thee more.” “Kiss the Son …