Love

Thorns and Thistles

Genesis 3:18

… If you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the …

Who Is This?

Isaiah 62:11

… Paul, after He had known Christ 15 years, yet desired that He might know Him, for His love passes knowledge. If this passage refers to our Savior's …

For The Troubled

Psalm 88:7

… Ah, if poor bewildered Believers could but see it, they would learn that the very thing which they call wrath is only love, in its own wise manner …

Evening, January 10

Job 19:26

… They love to behold him in communion and in prayer; but there in heaven they shall have an open and unclouded vision, and thus seeing “him as he …

Justification And Glory

Romans 8:30

… Could anything, then, be more consolatory to those who love God, than to be in this manner assured that the great concern of their salvation is not left …

Evening, December 2

Ec 1:14

Evening, December 2 Go To Morning Reading “Behold, all is vanity.” Ecclesiastes 1:14 Nothing can satisfy the entire man but the Lord’s love and the Lord …

Mr. Spurgeon’s Opinions on Subjects of General Interest

… May our Lord Jesus Christ inspire us with a deeper love to perishing sinners ! With my hearty love, " I am. Brother Blues, " Yours truly, Pigeon-shooting. In a …

Memorable Services at the Tabernacle, 1861-1874

… O my dear friends, let us grow in love to the brethren! “Then there is another thing, faith in the Lord Jesus. There can be no love to …

Evening, March 5

Ps 35:3

… I too must labour after an abiding sense of my acceptance in the Beloved, and must have no joy when his love is not shed abroad in my …

The Determination of Christ to Suffer for His People

Mark 15:23

… Was it out of any love to suffering that He thus refused the wine cup? Ah, no, Christ had no love of suffering. He had a love of …

Our Lord's Last Cry from the Cross

Luke 23:46

… Farther on, our Lord, in His great agony, saw His mother, with breaking heart, standing by the Cross and looking up to Him with unutterable love and grief …

Christ's Dying Word for His Church

John 19:30

… They shall prosper that love You. God loves those who love His Church and love His cause—and He rewards them with prosperity, as much of earthly prosperity …

Moab Is My Washpot

Psalm 60:8

… The friendship of the world is enmity to God—why should we seek it? “If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in …

Three Names High on the Muster Roll

Daniel 3:16-18

… I will serve God if He helps me at such and such a time." No, they would serve Him for nothing! Theirs was not cupboard love. "If not …

A Question for Hard-hearted Hearers

Amos 6:12

… They angle without hooks for fear of hurting the fish and fire without bullets out of respect to the feelings of the birds! This kind of love is …

"Take, Eat"

Matthew 26:26

… Therefore, you who are favored with His special manifestations of love, take up the joyous song even if others do not. Hallelujah, "Praise you the Lord." Now let …

Pressing Questions of an Awakened Mind

Acts 9:5

… It was all written over with blasphemy and rebellion and He rolled the hot iron of burning love over Paul's soul and the evil inscription was all …

A Testimony To Free and Sovereign Grace

Psalm 37:39

… He took counsel with no one and no one instructed Him—He alone fixed the eternal settlements of unchanging love! "The salvation of the righteous is of the …

A Home Mission Sermon

Ecclesiastes 9:10

… First, then, are there not some here who are saying, I hope I love Christ; I desire to serve him, for I have been saved by his work …

Good Works

Titus 2:14

… Well, we do love good works. Do you ask, of what use are they? I reply, first: Good works are useful as evidences of grace . The Antinomian says …

Jehovah-Shammah—a Glorious Name for the New Year

Ezekiel 48:35

… God is Love and He will only dwell where love reigns. He is the God of Peace and will not endure strife. The children of God should be …

Forgiveness and Fear

Psalm 130:4

… Where great sin has been blotted out, there comes to be great love. Well, is not love the very core of the true fear of God? If a …

Happy Childhood at Stambourne

Oh, the old house at home! who does not love it, the place of our childhood, the old roof-tree, the old cottage? There is no other village …

Scales Taken From the Eyes

Acts 11:18

… The fear of man and the love of man's applause—how they prevent men from seeing the Truth about Jesus and recognizing Him as the Son of …

The World Turned Upside Down

Acts 17:6

… Can it be true, that he whose gospel is love should be the fomenter of disturbance? Can it be fair for a moment to lay mutiny and rebellion …

Magdalene at the Sepulcher—an Instructive Scene

John 20:10-16

… Faith laughs at impossibility and cries, "it shall be done." But love actually performs the deed. A heart that is burning with love has about it a seven …

Binding Up Broken Hearts

Isaiah 61:1

… return unto Me, for I have redeemed you." He assures the penitent soul that, notwithstanding all its faults and follies, He still loves it with an everlasting love …

To Sunday School Teachers And Other Soul-winners

James 5:19

… For those whose predominating affections and imagination incline them to more mystic themes, John has written sentences aglow with devotion and blazing with love. We have his simple …

Open House For All Comers

Luke 15:2

… If they come casually into the throng, His eyes glance upon them and He has a word of gentle rebuke and wooing love. But if they will come …

The Spirit's Work in the New Creation

Genesis 1:2

… This is just what He wants in His children, that they should forever love Him and praise Him—and feel that they are under gracious obligations of love …

Shame Leading to Salvation

Psalm 83:16

… You know that we are bid to love our enemies, but we are never commanded to love God's enemies. We may not hate any men as men …

Iconoclast

2 Kings 18:4

… An old Puritan quaintly says, "suppose a loving husband were to give to his wife many rings and jewels out of love to her, and she should come …

Gratitude for Deliverance from the Grave

Psalm 118:17

… The enemy was moved by malice, but God was working by him in love to my soul. The second agent sought my ruin, but the Great First Cause …

Psalm 50

Psalm 50

… For herein is faith manifested, herein is love proved, for in the hour of peril we fly to those we love. It seems a small think to pray …

The Cloud of Doves

Isaiah 60:8

… We love to be there, next, because our companions are there. The doves fly to their roosts because there are other doves there that they love. And we …

The Two "Comes"

Revelation 22:17

… The Divine Redeemer, leaning from His Throne where He sits as the reward of His accomplished work, and bending over sinners with the same love which led Him …

The Student's Prayer

Psalm 119:27

… Is fidelity to the truth your cardinal virtue? Take heed of being uncharitable! Is love to God and man your highest aspiration? Beware lest you become the dupe …

Plain Directions To Those Who Would Be Saved From Sin

Psalm 4:4

… A Divine persuasion operates upon his whole nature—he is filled with adoring gratitude and that gratitude breeds an intense love—which fervent love sets itself to work …

The Rule of the Race

Hebrews 12:1

… At that moment you felt the love of God within your spirit like a consuming fire burning up your sin. You also were filled with love to the …

The Sorrowful Man's Question

Job 3:23

… Therefore, Beloved, let no question of ours reflect upon the Lord's love, or the dispensations of His Providence. Further, we may rest quite certain that there must …