Love

Lame Sheep

Hebrews 12:13

… you and nor is "God unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love." Would you make straight paths? Then, take care that your teaching is always according …

'The Blood of the Testament'

Hebrews 9:19

… Then the Atonement of Christ would become fair and lustrous in your eyes and you would rejoice with unspeakable joy in that boundless love which led the Savior …

Psalm 1

Psalm 1

… Why do you hold any dispute? Why draw vain conclusions? If a man has found that pearl of great price, to love the law of God and to …

The Church—the World's Hope

Acts 27:24

… Electing love has fixed on you and left an ungodly parent behind—and brothers and sisters run the downward road. Do not be too sad over this. I …

Boldness at the Throne

Hebrews 4:16

… He is Infinite in mercy and love and He delights to bless His creatures. He is Infinite in power and is, therefore, "able to do exceeding abundantly above …

The Big Gates Wide Open

John 6:37

… They have looked in the mirror till they are in love with themselves and they cannot bear to be separated from their beloved self. They feel so good …

Prosperity Under Persecution

Exodus 1:10-12

… We are very apt to get hived—too many of us together—and our very love of one another renders it difficult to part us and scatter us …

'Prisoners of Hope'

Zechariah 9:11

… There is about your head, even now, a halo of love, invisible to all but the eyes of Grace and gratitude—a bright, shining crown of loving kindness …

The Suffering Savior's Sympathy

Hebrews 2:18

… My Brothers, we that preach the Gospel, you that teach it in the Sunday school—you will always find your greatest power to lie in love. There is …

'He Must Reign'

1 Corinthians 15:25

… the weight of the rejected love of God Incarnate who died for sinners and yet is rejected by myriads despite His unspeakable love? Take your pens and calculate …

A Plain Talk Upon An Encouraging Topic

Jonah 2:7

… Having addressed the people of God, we feel very anxious to speak to those concerning whom the Lord has designs of love, but who are not yet made …

Preparation for the Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:28

… for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you …

A Warrant for Your Apprehension

Zephaniah 2:5

… If you live in sin and love sin, should God send you a Book to pacify your conscience in such a state? If that which is unjust, intemperate …

God's Will and Man's Will

Romans 9:16

… But it is the comfortable conviction of all God's people that "all things work together for good to them that love God;" and that God ruleth and …

Psalm 81

Psalm 81

… His acts of love to us speak more loudly than any of our words of gratitude can do. No dulness should ever stupefy our psalmody, or half heartedness …

Strong Consolation

Hebrews 6:17

… Oh, no, we readily believe and accept the truthfulness of those we love and yet our God, our Father—Christ our Brother, our dearest Friend—O why, why …

Order Is Heaven's First Law

Joel 2:8

… We expected to find a sublime poem, such as angels might love to read, but all this is confusion, void and unintelligible—strokes and dashes without meaning to …

'And It Was So'

Genesis 1:7

… We have read in God's Word that He would sanctify our trials to us and that, "all things work together for good to them that love God …

Psalm 123

Psalm 123

… even now it serves as a certificate that we are not of the world, for if we were of the world the world would love us as its …

Buying the Truth

Proverbs 23:23

… A man may sin, and be saved, but he cannot love sin and be saved! Give up, then, your drunkenness, if that is your sin. Give up, then …

The Saint and the Spirit

John 14:17

… Feeling none of His Divine energy they have no life in Him, no love to Him, and the affections not being moved, none of the other powers yield …

Life and Pardon

Colossians 2:13

… If, through a man's own perversity, he wills to reject good and love evil, the blame is with himself. He is said to be dead in sin …

Ancestry and Genealogy

… It should be read carefully by every statesman in Europe, especially by those who entertain a lingering love to persecution for righteousness’ sake, for beyond anything else in …

Clearing the Road to Heaven

Isaiah 62:10

… Shame upon you for thinking of such a thing! To melt your heart in the furnace of love is a Divine work and Christ must do it. Come …

Pilate and Ourselves Guilty of the Savior's Death

Matthew 27:24

… The incarnations of hate and love are before them—and Pilate gives the crowd their choice. Without hesitation they cry, "Not this Man, but Barabbas." "Now Barabbas was …

A Stanza of Deliverance

Psalm 105:37

… and there was not one feeble person among their tribes." I love texts which sing to me and make me join in! If this verse should get into …

The Unchanging God Cheering Jacob in His Change of Dwelling Place

Genesis 46:1-4

… This was the place, I suppose, where Abraham was when the Lord said to him, "Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and offer …

A Vile Weed and a Fair Flower

Hebrews 13:5

… Let the Christian dread it! God is not selfish, God is love—God hoards not, He gives liberally! He refuses not the poor, He delights in mercy. He …

Howling Changed To Singing

Psalm 13:1

… Can God forget? Can Omnipotence forget? Can unchanging love forget? Can infinite faithfulness forget? Yet so it seems to David. So it has often seemed to men in …

Confirming the Witness of Christ

1 Corinthians 1:6

… O Beloved, that is the best confirmation of Gospel Truth which every Christian carries about within him! I love Butler's Analogy—it is a very powerful book …

'Never, No Never, No Never'

Hebrews 13:5

… Let brotherly love continue. The word, "continue," implies that the "brotherly love" exists. There are many things which might put an end to it, so see to it …

Lost Through One-Saved Through One

Romans 5:16

… Yet thus is it written—"In due time Christ died for the ungodly." And this is the commendation of that death, and of the love which suggested it …

The Pity of the Lord—the Comfort of the Afflicted

James 5:11

… All this makes me say and makes you see that the end of the Lord is LOVE—and that, in the trouble which He sends He is still …

The Last Message for the Year

John 6:37

… Gratitude, love, joy, hope, peace, courage, long-suffering, gentleness, meekness, temperance and every other "fruit of the Spirit" will spring from the blessed root-Grace of faith in …

Supposing Him to Have Been in the Company

Luke 2:44

… Jesus has such a love to the sons of men and such a wish to gather them to Himself, that even now His redeeming work is done! He …

The Christian's Helmet

1 Thessalonians 5:8

… The foe may seem, for a time, as though he gave you credit, but never give your foe any credit! He hates you when he seems to love …

All Comers To Christ Welcomed

John 6:37

… The nearer they came to Him, the more is their awe of Him! The greater their love, the deeper is their humility. God will not have those about …

God's Providence

Ezekiel 1:15-19

… What is this axle? What is the pivot upon which all the machinery revolves? It is the axle of God's everlasting love towards His covenant people. The …

The Wide-open Mouth Filled

Psalm 81:10

… Ask to know "the love of Christ, which passes knowledge." And when you have asked for all that, ask for holiness—and do not ask for anything less …

The Beatitudes

Matthew 5:1-12

… The multitudes perceived in Him a love to them and a willingness to impart blessing to them. And, therefore, they gathered about Him. He chose the mountain and …