Love

How To Become Fishers of Men

Matthew 4:19

… If you are of the world, no doubt the world will love its own; but you cannot save the world. If you are dark, and belong to the …

Hearken and Look; or, Encouragement for Believers

Isaiah 51:2-3

… The everlasting ocean of love and power is ready to upbear us: we shall swim gallantly to shore if we will but trust this blessed sea of love …

Reform

2 Chronicles 31:1

… Yea, all of us, until renewed by divine grace, worship gods which our own hands have made, and we do not fear, and love, and obey the living …

Messengers Wanted

Isaiah 6:8

… Who shall be the object of My eternal love, and in consequence shall have this Grace given him that he should tell to others the unsearchable riches of …

He Ran, and He Ran

Mark 5:6

… Just for a few minutes, quietly worship Him, and while you are doing that, may the great Father come in with all His Omnipotent Love and put away …

Psalm 17

Psalm 17

… Verse 3, "Thou hast proved mine heart." Like Peter, David uses the argument, "Thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee." It is a most assuring …

The Nobleman's Faith

John 4:46-53

… Men believe the report which is brought to them by well-known persons who have experienced the power of Divine Love and thus, at first, like the Samaritans …

'Bought with a Price'

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

… short of this we are not what love and justice both demand. II. Now let us pass on to the second point. Here is A PLAIN CONSEQUENCE arising …

Life In Earnest

2 Chronicles 31:21

… O Lover of my soul, I cannot but love You, You have won my heart. The love of Christ constrains me! And do You, Lord, for sinners, bleed …

The Fainting Soul Revived

Jonah 2:7

… By the compassion of the Most High, by the love of God, I pray you stop! Do not drink the cup of devils after having drank the cup …

First Printed Works.–Author, Publishers, and Readers

… He converted my soul by it ; and now, all glory to Him, I love His Name ! Each Sabbath morning," she added, " I wait for your sermon. I live …

The Minister’s Self-Watch

… He that bade you love your neighbours as yourselves, did imply that you should love yourselves and not hate and destroy both yourselves and them.” My brethren, let …

Satan's Banquet

John 2:9-10

… Ahithophel first presents the lordly dish of love and kindness to David, then afterwards that which is worse, for he forsakes his master, and becomes the counsellor of …

Fear Not

Isaiah 41:14

… We do not like it if it is labeled flattery; but we like it if it is given in a little underhand fashion, We all love praise. “The …

Children'S Bread Given To Dogs

Matthew 15:27

… Ah, poor Heart, though Christ beat and bruise you or even slay you, trust Him! Though He should give you an angry word, believe in the love of …

True Prayer—True Power!

Mark 11:24

… Oh, come unto him, say unto him, “Take away all iniquity, receive us graciously, love us freely,” and he will hear you, and you shall yet pray as …

Cheer For The Faint-Hearted

Judges 13:23

… There cannot be a greater act of treason than to mistrust the love, the faith, the tenderness, the Truth of the God who has helped us up to …

Christian Diligence

… whisper in the mourner’s ear electing grace, and redeeming mercy, and Divine love. When thou findest a troubled one, tell him of the covenant, in all things …

Are You Prepared To Die?

Jeremiah 12:5

… And then we will raise another Ebenezer in Heaven! There shall be twelve stones there that will tell the angels and the principalities of the love which cleft …

Timely Reflections

Romans 13:11

… But in the meantime, as you are going first, take my love to the four great Johns—John who leaned on Jesus' bosom and John Bunyan and John …

The Character of Christ’s People

John 17:16

… They live much in the air of romances and novels; love to read things that fetch tears from their eyes; they would like continually to live in a …

Later Literary Works

… It will address itself to those faithful friends, scattered everywhere, who are our well-wishers and supporters in our work of faith and labour of love. We feel …

Unsubmissive Prayers

… We who love the Lord are not to sojourn in Mesech for aye. The dust may defile our robes now, but the day is coming when we shall …

Psalm 30

Psalm 30

… Head and heart, judgment and affections, memory and intellect were all at work to spread the case aright before the Lord of love. What profit is there in …

The Pastors' College

… do so as long as he desires us to pursue this labour of love. We need, at least, 100 pounds every week of the year. Since our service …

What Meanest Thou, O Sleeper?

Jonah 1:5-6

… Some of you love drunkenness, and though you leave it for a little season, yet all the entreaties of the minister and all the pleadings of your conscience …

A Home for the Fatherless

… You will, no doubt, decide that there must be discipline exercised, — great firmness, united with much patience and forbearance, the law of love only. Whenever you wish to …

The Feast of the Lord

John 2:9-10

… Their faith is firm and strong; they have much love to the Redeemer; they are engaged in some delightful work, and the Holy Spirit attends that work with …

Prayer 9 — Glorious Liberty

… It is a work of divine power and love over human nature, for now we are the children of the promise, certainly not born according to the strength …

The Plea of Faith

2 Samuel 7:25

… Then, if that be thy state, go and take this to God: “The mountains may depart, and the hills may be removed, but the covenant of my love …

The Beauty Of The Olive Tree

Hosea 14:6

… They rejoice for a season and then lose their first love. Like the deciduous tree which puts on its greenery in the early spring, but is stripped in …

Psalm 56

Psalm 56

… A persecuted man finds a friend even in an angry God, how much more in the God of love! When men seek to cast us down, it is …

Psalm 144

Psalm 144

… he foreknew them in love, he knows them by care, he will know them in acceptance at last. Why and wherefore is this? What has man done? What …

Psalm 6

Psalm 6

… O give my soul some sweet foretaste Of that which I shall shortly see! Let faith and love cry to the last, "Come, Lord, I trust myself with …

Psalm 128

Psalm 128

… It is his love gives a relish to all we taste, puts life and sweetness into all; while every creature leads us up to the great Creator, and …

The Battle of Life

… I do but borrow a reflection from the secular press when I say that it were ill for us if the love of peace, fostered among us as …

Canaan on Earth

Deuteronomy 11:10-12

… I love God’s favours on earth; for everything I eat and drink tastes of home. And oh! how sweet to think, “That bread, my Father’s hand …

Notable Lectures and Addresses, 1857-1878

… of nations, nor the bringing of large numbers to make a profession of love to Christ, nor the conversion of persons from one sect to another. Then, turning …

Psalm 121

Psalm 121

… But, oh, how immeasurably beyond even the untiring wings of angels is the love promised here! that love which engages to protect from every danger, as a hen …

Noah's Flood

Matthew 24:39

… May eternal love save any of us from perishing in devouring fire as Noah's despisers did in the devouring Flood. There were other people, no doubt, who …