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The love of God, love for Christ, and Christian love
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Evening, July 1
Ge 3:8
… Sweet is the cool twilight, when every star seems like the eye of heaven, and the cool wind is as the breath of celestial love. My Father, my …
SERMON • SERMON 2216The Lad's Loaves in the Lord's Hands
John 6:11
… There is that heart of yours—it can be warmed with the love of God. There is that tongue of yours—it can be touched with the live …
DEVOTIONALEvening, January 16
Da 9:26
… to wear a crown of thorns, and die upon the cross! Herein is love, which led the Redeemer to lay down his life for his enemies! It is …
DEVOTIONALEvening, April 5
Pr 15:33
… If we empty our hearts of self, God will fill them with his love. He who desires close communion with Christ should remember the word of the Lord …
DEVOTIONALEvening, July 19
Mt 12:20
… Herein is grace and graciousness! Herein is love and lovingkindness! How it opens to us the compassion of Jesus—so gentle, tender, considerate! We need never shrink back …
DEVOTIONALEvening, August 3
Lu 8:42
… He is a swift arrow of love, which not only reaches its ordained target, but perfumes the air through which it flies. Virtue is evermore going out of …
DEVOTIONALEvening, November 4
Ps 36:9
Evening, November 4 Go To Morning Reading “In thy light shall we see light.” Psalm 36:9 No lips can tell the love of Christ to the heart …
DEVOTIONALMorning, January 7
Php 1:21
… He has so completely won our love, that it beats alone for him; to his glory we would live, and in defence of his gospel we would die …
DEVOTIONALMorning, June 5
Ge 7:16
… was shut in away from all the world by the hand of divine love. The door of electing purpose interposes between us and the world which lieth in …
DEVOTIONALEvening, September 29
Song 3:4
… and only rest. “When my precious Lord I find, All my ardent passions glow; Him with cords of love I bind, Hold and will not let him go.”
SERMON • SERMON 2557A Vexed Soul Comforted
Job 27:2
… Or you of the tender heart have been disappointed and rejected, and your love has been thrown away. Or you of the energetic spirit have been foiled and …
DEVOTIONALEvening, February 25
Jon 1:3
… But what is the consequence? What did Jonah lose by his conduct? He lost the presence and comfortable enjoyment of God’s love . When we serve our Lord …
DEVOTIONALMorning, May 16
1Ti 6:17
… river of his bounty is ever-flowing, and the well-spring of his love is constantly overflowing. As the King can never die, so his grace can never …
DEVOTIONALMorning, May 23
Ps 138:8
… He did not say, “ I have grace enough to perfect that which concerneth me—my faith is so steady that it will not stagger—my love is so …
SERMON • SERMON 499The Clean and the Unclean
Leviticus 11:2
… They love precious truth, and yet they are all for this earth. If there are any such here, despite their fine experience, we pronounce them unclean—they are …
DEVOTIONALMorning, January 10
2Ti 4:8
… I love the quaint saying of a dying man, who exclaimed, “I have no fear of going home; I have sent all before me; God’s finger is …
DEVOTIONALMorning, January 27
Jn 1:16
… A fulness of every divine attribute, of wisdom, of power, of love; a fulness which it were impossible to survey, much less to explore. “It pleased the Father …
DEVOTIONALMorning, February 10
Php 4:12
… Take care that you ask in your prayers that God would teach you “how to be full.” “Let not the gifts thy love bestows Estrange our hearts from …
DEVOTIONALEvening, June 2
Matt. 19:16
… Never could there be a better Master, for his service is freedom, his rule is love: I wish I were one thousandth part as good a servant. When …
DEVOTIONALMorning, October 23
Jn 6:67
… present, nor things to come, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord!” We say with Peter, “Lord …
DEVOTIONALMorning, November 14
Zep 1:5
… Thou professest to be a follower of Jesus—dost thou truly love him? Is thy heart right with God? Art thou of the family of old Father Honest …
SERMON • SERMON 1208Infallibility—Where To Find It and How To Use It
Matthew 4:4
… At that time our only defense is the sure Word, "It is written, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul …
SERMON • SERMON 2816Invitation to a Conference
Isaiah 1:18
… You are standing out against the God of Love, refusing to submit to Him whose service is perfect freedom and joy. You are utterly wrong in your relationship …
DEVOTIONALEvening, January 31
2Sa 18:23
… have I been delivered from proud reason and been brought as a little child to rest in Jesus’ love and blood? If so, by God’s grace I …
DEVOTIONALMorning, March 25
Lu 22:48
… I do love thee, Jesus, and though I often grieve thee, yet I would desire to abide faithful even unto death. O God, forbid that I should be …
DEVOTIONALEvening, August 22
Eph 3:8
… There is no love like his, neither earth nor heaven can match it. To know Christ and to be found in him—oh! this is life, this is …
DEVOTIONALEvening, August 25
Ac 8:37
… God makes no difference in his love to his children. A child is a child to him; he will not make him a hired servant; but he shall …
DEVOTIONALMorning, October 17
1Sa 27:1
… We have had dark nights, but the star of love has shone forth amid the blackness; we have been in stern conflicts, but over our head he has …
DEVOTIONALEvening, December 7
1Co 9:22
… for sinners, cannot we live for them? Where is our tenderness? Where our love to Christ, if we seek not his honour in the salvation of men? O …
SERMON • SERMON 3053Jesus Christ's Idiom
John 3:5
… The result of believing in Him will be this—knowing that you are saved because God tells you that you are, you love God whom you dreaded before …
DEVOTIONALMorning, October 10
Jude 24
… but as our Lord never stops short of perfection in his work of love, we shall reach it one day. The Saviour who will keep his people to …
DEVOTIONALMorning, November 6
Is 44:3
… Slavish fear brings not back the backslider to God, but the sweet wooings of love allure him to Jesus’ bosom. Are you this morning thirsting for the living …
SERMON • SERMON 3149The Commissariat of the Universe
Psalm 104:28
… Children love bright, happy teaching—they naturally desire life and happiness—so David begins. 12. 13. What man is he that desires life, and loves many days, that …
SERMON • SERMON 946The Profit Of Godliness In The Life To Come
1 Timothy 4:8
… Are you ungodly? Do you live without God? Are you without faith in God, without love to God, without reverence to God? Are you without the pardon which …
DEVOTIONALMorning, October 6
Jn 4:14
… it a sweet thing to be panting after a fuller enjoyment of Jesus’ love. One in days of yore said, “I have been sinking my bucket down into …
DEVOTIONALMorning, January 16
Is 41:14
… United Trinity? Dost thou want more wisdom than exists in the Father, more love than displays itself in the Son, or more power than is manifest in the …
DEVOTIONALEvening, June 15
Rev 3:7
… My soul, get Calvary’s blood-red rose into thy hand by faith, by love wear it, by communion preserve it, by daily watchfulness make it thine all …
DEVOTIONALEvening, November 21
Jn 12:2
… Lazarus; is it excusable in us whom Jesus has loved with an everlasting love? To have been cold to him who wept over his lifeless corpse, would have …
DEVOTIONALEvening, September 18
Jn 10:27
… We shall find it sweet to go up the bleak side of the hill with Christ; and when rain and snow blow into our faces, his dear love …
DEVOTIONALMorning, October 20
Eph 4:15
… head on his breast; then shall we find ourselves advancing in holiness, in love, in faith, in hope—yea, in every precious gift. As the sun rises first …