Love

A Discourse For A Revival Season

Jeremiah 8:19

… We love our wives—if your wife should ask for anything that would be for her good and you could give it, would you refuse it? Husband, would …

God's Works Made Manifest

John 9:3

… They are sent to refine, sent as a holy discipline, sent as sacred excavators to make more room in the heart for Christ and His love. Indeed, you …

Joyful Transformations

Isaiah 42:16

… The same on Tuesday and all the days of the year—no dire struggles, no fierce temptations, no gracious victories—no Divine experiences of heavenly love. Their whole …

Powerful Persuasives

Matthew 11:27-28

… He knows his Father's love. He alone can feel it—such love as God felt for sinners. He knows how his Father's wrath has been turned …

Prayer 11 — Under The Blood

… Oh! that we might have our eye always on the brazen serpent that healeth all the bites of evil, but may we not look to sin nor love …

Israel at the Red Sea

Psalm 106:9

… And you must generally expect, very soon after you have been brought to know and love him, that you will have some great, broad, deep Red Sea straight …

The Angelic Life

Matthew 22:30

… Unto Jesus they pay their perpetual love. The elders are represented as standing before the Throne with their vials full of sweet odors, and their golden harps, representing …

High Doctrine And Broad Doctrine

John 6:37

… But here at the bottom lies the placid, glassy lake of Infinite Love and Mercy—"Him that comes to Me I will by no means cast out." Steam …

Psalm 79

Psalm 79

… From the direst calamities God's glory springs, and the dark days of his people become the prelude to unusual displays of the Lord's love and power …

Open-Air Preaching — A Sketch of Its History

… While their hearts were warm with the love of God, some expressing their desire of a sermon on the Monday, were joined by others, and in a little …

Psalm 127

Psalm 127

… Quiet sleep is the gift of God, and it is the love of God to give quiet sleep. 1. 'Tis God's gift when we have it: quiet …

Peter Walking on the Sea

Matthew 14:28-31

… John is full of love, he stays in the vessel. But Peter abounds in faith and he must be doing some high action congruous to the nature of …

Waiting Only Upon God

Psalm 62:6

… The wife often saith, “I love the Lord, but if my husband died, where would be my dependence?” What! hast thou buttressed the almighty even with a husband …

Elijah’s Appeal to the Undecided

1 Kings 18:21

… If you love the world, then love it; but cast off the mask, and do not be a hypocrite. The double-minded man is of all men the …

Psalm 118

Psalm 118

… I love them all; I love all holy Scripture, which is my consolation and my life. But this Psalm is nearest my heart, and I have a peculiar …

Terrible Convictions and Gentle Drawings

Psalm 32:3-4

… Besides, it may possibly happen that he designs this out of love to your soul, to make you the more happy afterwards. He is filling your mouth with …

Week-day Services, 1858-1860

… There is no need to attempt the task, for that campaign of love is recorded on high, and it is gladly and gratefully remembered in thousands of the …

Safe Shelter

Psalm 91:4

… There was love in it. There was homeliness, relationship, kindliness, heart-working in it all. It was not merely the relief that might supply a little cold comfort …

In the Hay-field

… And you, solitary child of God, dwelling, unknown and obscure, in a remote hamlet; you are not forgotten by the love of heaven. He maketh the grass to …

Heavenly Worship

Revelation 14:1-3

… You who love the old Puritans, you have no right to quarrel with me; for where will you find a Puritan who was not a strong Calvinist? You …

Psalm 64

Psalm 64

… Circumvent their counsel; let their secrets be met by thy secret providence, their counsels of malice by thy counsels of love. From the insurrection of the workers of …

Healing for the Wounded

Psalm 147:3

… You would be if there were no God of love and pity; but while Jehovah lives, the mourner need not despair. Penury has also contributed its share to …

The Father's Will

John 6:39

… But the man who knows that he is God's child and never will be anything else—that God loves him and must love him—says now, out …

Our Champion

Judges 16:3

… You remember when our Samson, our Lord Jesus, came down to the Gaza of this world, 'twas love that brought Him. Love to a most unworthy object, for …

A Personal Application

Hebrews 9:26

… The reason why at this moment you love darkness rather than light is because your deeds are evil. Let me remind every unconverted person here of the responsibility …

Awakening

… Some seem as if they had fallen in love with their doubts, and fears, and distresses. You cannot get them away from their terrors-they seem wedded to …

Man Humbled, God Exalted

Isaiah 2:17

… were built among the stars—and the stooping in the almightiness of His love to pick up the beggar from the mire and set him among the princes …

Some Reminiscences of Foreign Travel

… Then, wherever we might be, the sweet devoutness of his spirit was always manifest, and the light of his love to his Saviour shone with a steady radiance …

The Amen

Revelation 3:14

… He might have left the service had He willed, but He said, "I love My Master, and I love My Master's children." And so, like a man …

Secret Sins

Psalm 19:12

… If he will turn from his ways, I will love him, but in his hypocrisy he is to me the most loathsome of all creatures. ‘Tis said the …

Psalm 148

Psalm 148

… For its exposition the chief requisite is a heart on fire with reverent love to the Lord over all, who is to be blessed for ever . EXPOSITION Verse …

Our Lord's Preaching

Isaiah 61:1

… He preached from the bloody tree—with hands and feet fastened there, He delivered the most wonderful discourse of Justice and of Love, of Vengeance and of Grace …

Justification by Grace

… When he put it to his own lips, it was so bitter, he well nigh spurned it—“Let this cup pass from me.” But his love for his …

“Forward!”

… We are not worth His having at our best; but, at any rate, let not the offering be maimed and blemished by our idleness. “Thou shalt love the …

The Spirit and the Wind

John 3:8

… If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But inasmuch as Christ has chosen you out of the world, do not expect that the …

A Safe Prospective

Daniel 8:19

… All the appointments of His Providence, especially towards His people, are ruled in mercy, in tenderness, in love and in wisdom and all are conducive to their highest …

Prayer 20 — The Great Sacrifice

… Oh! that some might be moved with the love of Christ. Lord, some know not who Thou art. Convince them of Thy deity and Thy power to save …

Farm Laborers

… Love looks for returns of love; grace given demands gracious fruit. Watered with the drops of the Saviour’s bloody sweat, shall we not bring forth a hundredfold …

Our Hiding Place

Isaiah 32:2

… This is the Man, the exalted Mann, Whom we unseen adore! But when our eyes behold His face, Our hearts shall love Him more!" I close my description …

John Ploughman's Talk

… They who join their love in God above, who pray to love, and love to pray, will find that love and joy will never cloy. He who respects …