Love

The Little Dogs

Matthew 15:26

… A mother's love makes her heroic for her child! And so, when you are pleading with God, plead as a mother's love suggests to you, till …

Enduring to the End

Matthew 10:22

… O beloved! I conjure you by the love of God, and by the love of your own souls, be faithful unto death. Have you difficulties? You must conquer …

A Summary of Experience and a Body of Divinity

1 Thessalonians 1:9-10

… He is gladly one with them in love to, their souls, bat he would have it remembered that he cannot be responsible for all their actions. Those who …

The Threshing Floor of Ornan

1 Chronicles 21:28

… But you have not yet beheld that sword sheathed, nor heard the voice of Jehovah saying, "It is enough." The place where love meets love, where your little …

Holy Water

John 4:14

… We must so trust Him, depend upon Him, love Him, follow Him, yield ourselves up to Him, live upon Him and in Him that it may be clear …

"They Were Tempted"

Hebrews 11:37

… But though natural love struggled in their hearts, they leaped over that temptation, for they loved Christ better than their dearest relatives. They were tempted in the most …

The General Convocation Around Mount Zion

Hebrews 12:22-24

… All that we see at Zion electrifies us with delight—we scarcely know how to bear ourselves as we think of the wondrous Glory of love! We are …

Prayer-Its Discouragements and Encouragements

Matthew 15:23

… She appealed not to His justice, but to His mercy, to the love of His tender and compassionate heart—"Have mercy on me." This was the plea of …

The Ascension and the Second Advent Practically Considered

Acts 1:10

… The manger and the cross together are divine seals of love. That the Lord Jesus rose again from the dead is the warrant of our justification, and also …

Prayer Found in the Heart

2 Samuel 7:27

… And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?No—man could not have been so kind as that! The love of Jesus surpasses the love of …

Ordered Steps

Psalm 119:133

… Perhaps, Lord, I shall never be a drunkard, for You have given me reason, thought and the love of sobriety, but then, Lord, what use is it if …

A Delicious Experience

Hebrews 4:3

… How often have I seen the enlightenment which comes of faith, when a man sees that God is full of love towards him, that He is willing to …

The Far-off, Near—the Near, Far Off

Matthew 2:1-4

… Oh, that His love would light on some, tonight, who are strangers and foreigners, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, perhaps without God and without hope in the …

Christians Kept From Sin

1 Samuel 25:32

… For that Almighty Love which has manifested itself in restraining Grace, let us render grateful songs of thanksgiving as we look back upon our past lives, for we …

A Typical Week’s Work

… Shall I ever forget those solemn evenings when the sufferings of the Lord Jesus were the theme of tearful meditation ; — when, with 'love and grief our hearts dividing …

The Peace of the Devil and the Peace of God

Luke 11:21

… There may be some few people in the world who do not love peace, but we love not their spirit. Certain stormy natures delight in tempest and, like …

Let Him Deliver Him Now

Matthew 27:43

… Let your thoughts draw the outline, and your love fill in the detail; I shall not complain if imagination heightens the colouring. The Son of God, whom angels …

Singing in the Ways of the Lord

Psalm 138:5

… There is more love in the chastening that you get than in the gentler way in which God deals with others. Come, let us bless His name! He …

A Seasonable Exhortation

1 Peter 1:13

… Wisely, then, does bold Peter say to us, "Hope to the end." You who love the Truth of God, do not despair of its success! You who hold …

Zedekiah—or, the Man Who Cannot Say, "No"

Jeremiah 38:5

… By their conduct they say, "I am by no means so bound up with any religious views as to love anything for their sake. I am not one …

The Best Strengthening Medicine

Hebrews 11:34

… By nature we love our own will and way and it goes against the grain for us to bring ourselves into such complete subjection as the Law of …

Climbing the Mountain

Psalm 24:3

… We shall behold his face; we shall look into his eyes, we shall drink love from the fountain of his heart, and hear the music of his love …

A Cure For Care

1 Peter 5:7

… Want of love which is proven by our distrust of love. Want of hope which puts out our eyes so that we cannot see the clear shining after …

Sowing and Reaping

Galatians 6:7

… and strewing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, and keep My Commandments." To bow in worship before a so-called "altar," or a cross, or an …

The Glory in the Rear

Exodus 14:19-20

… All trouble is not chastisement; it may be a way of love for your enriching and ennobling. Upon the black horse of trouble the Lord sends his messengers …

The Looking Glass

James 1:23-25

… Like the cherubim, we are in happy company and, like they, we look towards each other by mutual love. Our common standing is the Atonement; our common study …

Fountains of Repentant Tears

Mark 14:72

… See how positive he was, how reliant upon the strength of his own love! It was well to feel such love, but it was ill to mix with …

A Welcome for Jesus

Luke 8:40

… Yet there are, in such a scene, sighs and groans, and tears, and sobs—and men who love the pleasures of the world flee from it. But angels …

Paul—His Cloak And His Books

2 Timothy 4:13

… If you have experienced as much love, love the Lord as much and spend and be spent for the Lord Jesus! 2. Secondly, dear Friends, we learn how …

Three Homilies From One Text

Matthew 4:23-25

… Then a lecture to saints upon their labor of love. And yet again, a longer sermon full of encouragement to poor trembling sinners. I. My text seems to …

The Covenant Promise of the Spirit

Ezekiel 36:27

… Blessed Word of God! I love my text. I love it better than I can speak of it! Observe once more that this Word is a very effectual …

The Great Sin Of Doing Nothing

Numbers 32:23

… They love their beds, but the Lord's fields they will neither plow nor reap. This is the sin pointed out in the text—"If you do not …

Man, Whose Breath Is In His Nostrils

Isaiah 2:22

… We seek after something to worship, something to love, something to rely upon which is so near akin to the coarser part of our nature that we may …

Bankrupt Debtors Discharged

Luke 7:42

… All that I can do, if I love God with all my heart and soul and strength, and my neighbor as myself, throughout the rest of my life …

A Discourse to the Despairing

Genesis 42:1

… We never knew the story of the Cross and all the love of God in Christ Jesus." You cannot say that, but you will have to confess, some …

Warning and Encouragement

Solomon 5:2

… it is the voice of my beloved that knocks, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew …

Jehovah Has Spoken—will You Not Hear?

Jeremiah 13:15-17

… Israel had been to God what a sash is to a man—the people had been bound closely about Him in His great love and favor. But on …

'Who Is on the Lord's Side?'

Exodus 32:26

… And there is unholiness—and you have no difficulty in deciding on whose side that is! Then, as to order, peace, quietness, love, generosity and so on, you …

Witnessing Better Than Knowing the Future

Acts 1:6-8

… He must arrange it in infinite love to us. It cannot be that, in some dark hour yet to come, He will forget us. He is our Father …

The Known and the Unknown

Ecclesiastes 6:12

… It is true that they have not our sins, but they can never know "Free Grace and dying love" as we have known them! It is true that …