Love

Preaching for the Poor

… Oh! we love piety anywhere; we bless God where coronets and grace go together; but if piety in any place do shine more brightly than anywhere else, it …

I Know That My Redeemer Liveth

Job 19:25-27

… His works, his purposes, his gifts, his love to you, and his glory in all his purposes, and in all his deeds of love—why, these shall make …

Satan, Self, Sin and the Savior

Mark 5:9

… Whether hate is a more compacting principle than love, I will not venture to say, but certainly these haters of God and of His Truth appear to be …

"Is Anything Too Hard for the Lord?"

Jeremiah 32:26

… The Lord of Love can make sinners into saints. We tremble lest some have lost the very capacity for virtue. We ask in despair, "Can the Ethiopian change …

The Fainting Warrior

Romans 7:24

… It will employ faith, and hope, and love, the threatenings, the promises, providence, grace, and everything else to cast out the evil. Well,” says one, “I don’t …

Safe, Though Surrounded By Sin

Psalm 28:1

… Now it is the duty of the Christian, wherever he may be, to bear witness for his Lord, but self-love and the love of ease come in …

The Fear of Death

Hebrews 2:14

… Other checks, of far greater importance here, in the hand of Infinite Love, restrain the Christian from going into sin. Nor does he need the fear or death …

Satan's Arrows and God's

Lamentations 3:12

… All the ingenuity of Heaven seems to be taxed to bless Believers! And just as man sought out many inventions for evil, God, in His Infinite Love and …

God's Hand at Evening

Ezekiel 33:22

… for I am love-sick." May we often feel this downcasting and yet uplifting power of "the hand of the Lord" upon us! Further, "the hand of the …

The Two Gatherings

Psalm 50:5

… I have four children—as smiling and happy children as you ever saw—and I love to hear their musical voices and their pretty prattle. But if I …

Ebenezer!

1 Samuel 7:12

… I know not a better way of celebrating this day of Ebenezer and thanksgiving, than by some hearts this day accepting the marriage ring of Christ’s love …

Help for Seekers of the Light

Isaiah 59:9

… Then you imagine in your heart how fervently you will love your Redeemer! How rapturously you will kiss the very dust of His feet! How gratefully you will …

Corn in Egypt

Genesis 42:1

… The demands of a hungry man are great; but the demands of a hungry soul are greater still; until that soul gets the love and mercy of God …

Peter's Shortest Prayer

Matthew 14:30

… Lord, save me!" I entreat everyone here to pray this personal prayer, and I beg you who do love the Lord to join me in pleading with Him …

Presumptuous Sins

Psalm 19:13

… You old experienced Christians, boast not in your experience; you may trip yet, unless you cry, “Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe.” Ye whose love …

Sickness and Prayer, Healing and Praise

Psalm 107:17-22

… A saved soul feels the sacred burdening of love and longs to consecrate itself and all it has to God's Glory! And if there is one thing …

The Secret of Happiness

Matthew 9:2

… wrote, "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose." Deliverance from sins …

The Two Talents

Matthew 25:22-23

… But mark, the thing that you complain of in God, is the very thing that you love in yourselves. Every man likes to feel that he has a …

The Great Teacher and Remembrancer

John 14:26

… Still, if you but studied them for yourselves, you might yet have bright eyes and an elastic, bounding footstep, and rejoice in the everlasting love of God which …

Proving God

Malachi 3:10

… Well, then, I shall prove the love of God in sweet communing. Or, perhaps I may be called to stand where the thunderclouds brew, where the lightning plays …

Baptism Essential To Obedience

Mark 16:16

… He shall get the love of swearing by the throat. He shall have his lying, his anger, his passion under his feet. "He who believes and is baptized …

The Great Revival

Isaiah 52:10

… The tear runs over at his eye; his soul is full of love for souls.” They cannot make it out; they have often said he was dull and …

'The Lamb of God'

John 1:29

… And I do not perceive that he has any difficulty about whether the crumbs were laid there for him, or whether I had any electing love towards him …

Prayer 18 — O, For More Grace!

… Have we dear ones whom we love with all our hearts, who pine before our eyes? Lord, have pity upon them and restore them, and give them patience …

Suffering Outside the Camp

Hebrews 13:12

… to Heaven—a work by which corruptions are overcome, lusts restrained, faith increased, love inflamed, hope brightened and the spirit made fit to dwell with the glorified above …

Taking Possession Of Our Inheritance

Joshua 1:2

… He accepts our offerings, our prayers, our praises, our heart's love. Our name is Hephzibah, for the Lord delights in us. Pardon of sin is like the …

Two Visions

Zechariah 1:8-21

… Out of love to His people He became one flesh with them and is now most truly called, "The Man Christ Jesus." He is not ashamed to call …

The Plowman

Isaiah 28:24

… Do not spurn such patience, but yield to the Lord who has acted towards you with so much gentle love! The text, however, not only sets forth patience …

Possessing Possessions

… You wandered up and down in sin, knowing nothing of what free Grace and dying love had done for you—but now you have come to God and …

The Two Appearings and the Discipline of Grace

Titus 2:11-14

… The free favor of God instills new principles, suggests new thoughts and, by inspiring us with gratitude, creates in us love to God and hatred of that which …

Marvellous Increase of the Church

Isaiah 60:8

… we be to have thee united with our church; for we love all those who love the Lord Jesus Christ. Yet, lest thou shouldst not understand our holy …

Man Unknown To Man

Proverbs 14:10

… Many plants flourish best in the sunshine but others love the shade. I have seen a fern which grows best in drip and gloom. God has made each …

Justification by Faith—Illustrated by Abram’s Righteousness

Genesis 15:6

… Ah, brethren, this is a blessed fear—let us cultivate it; for until it shall be cast out by perfect love, which is better still, we may be …

Rehoboam the Unready

2 Chronicles 12:14

… May God have mercy upon any of you mothers who have sons growing up to follow the evil example which you are setting them! Mothers, by the love …

The Door

John 10:9

… go into the innermost Heaven, into that blessed circle where God reveals His love in the highest degree. "He shall go in." And he shall have liberty of …

The Death of the Christian

Job 5:26

… And on my way ye kiss me with the kisses of love and affection. Ye call me brother. Cherubs; am I your brother? I who just now was …

Intimate Knowledge of the Holy Spirit

John 14:17

… For He dwells with you and shall be in you." If they had refused the sayings of Christ, if they had possessed no love, if they had not …

The Destroyer Destroyed

Hebrews 2:14

… I love then to sing— “This awful God is mine My Father and my love, He shall send down his heavenly powers To carry me above. Yes, you …

The Danger of Carnal Security

Judges 18:7

… But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate offaith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. For God has …

A Holy and Homely Resolve

Psalm 101:2

… I love to expound Christian doctrine! I love to open up the promises! This is all sweet work, but we must have the precepts. We shall never have …