Love

On Raising Questions

… He may at once advance to that higher and better way of living, which grows out of love to Jesus, the Saviour. Why should not the reader do …

Job's Resignation

Job 1:20-22

… And God who gave that love to her and moved her to care for you will be sure to find that same love which flowed out of Him …

Taking Hold of God

Isaiah 64:7

… Turn not away, but let the God of Love be your God now and forever! Can you not take hold of Him through the Gospel—the Gospel which …

Baptism’A Burial

Romans 6:3-4

… Who among us has yet come to lose sight of shore and to swim in the Atlantic of divine love, where fathomless truth rolls underneath, and the infinite …

Prayer 13 — The Wings of Prayer

… of the sublime lessons of self-sacrifice, of meekness, humility, fervor, boldness, and love which Thy life is fit to teach us. O Lord, we beseech Thee mold …

Jonah's Resolve—or, 'Look Again!'

Jonah 2:4

… An ugly kind of saint this Jonah, when he was in the sulks! A proud, self-conscious, willful and morose being—hard to love! Yet, as an oyster …

Temple Glories

2 Chronicles 5:13

… You will love your pastor; you will cherish your Elders; you will rally round your deacons; you will, as a Church, recognize the bonds of your Church-relationship …

Mr. Spurgeon as a Literary Man

… A great heart, on fire with the love of God and the love of souls. And then he showed a practical common sense in doing things, both sacred …

Obtaining Promises

Hebrews 11:33

… But God, when the predestinated hour is come, says, "it is a time of love," and beholding the infant cast out and in its blood, He says unto …

Simeon

Luke 2:25

… You have not heard His love-speaking voice. You have not listened to the tender accents of His lips, and you are longing for Him. You are, like …

Hearing, Seeking, Finding

Psalm 132:6

… We know about Christ, we have found Him near us—we will now go and simply trust and rest—and so dwell in the great Father's love …

First Literary Friends (Continued)

… through his instrumentality bring many souls to bow to the sceptre of His love and mercy!" The list of " first literary friends " would not be complete unless it …

Prayer 12 — On Holy Ground

… If God in the bush demanded the unsandalled foot of the prophet, how much more shall God in Christ Jesus? With lowliest reverence, with truest love, we worship …

Salvation by Knowing the Truth

1 Timothy 2:3

… My love of consistency with my own doctrinal views is not great enough to allow me knowingly to alter a single text of Scripture. I have great respect …

Abram And The Ravenous Birds

Genesis 15:11

… No, we might doubt our own existence, but Jesus, His power, His love, His precious blood, His prevalent atonement we dare not doubt. One puff of the breath …

Christ is Glorious—Let Us Make Him Known

Micah 5:4

… He rules by the force of love and the energy of goodness. His power lies not in imperious threatenings, but in imperial lovingkindness. Let the children of Zion …

The Heavenly Race

1 Corinthians 9:24

… you when you come into the swellings of Jordan, Seek to have a love which is not like a transient flame, burning for a moment and then extinguished …

Peace at Home, and Prosperity Abroad

Psalm 147:14

… But on the other hand, it is quite possible that the fullest charity with which the mildness of our Savior's mind and the love of the Spirit …

The Message from the Lord's Mouth

Ezekiel 3:17

… Jesus Christ and of setting Him on high in hearts conquered by His love! We should all desire to take some part in this gracious work! Of course …

Where The "If" Lies

Mark 9:23

… I have been rent with passion, and torn with evil desires; I have sinned against light and knowledge, I have sinned against love and mercy; I have sinned …

Order and Argument in Prayer

Job 23:3

… Let the greatness of thy love be seen in me.” Moses seems to have the same on his mind when he asks God to show his great power …

Preaching! Man's Privilege and God's Power

Mark 6:20

… I would have you love yourselves, and so escape from hell, and fly to heaven while yet the gate of mercy stands on the jar, and the hour …

Deacons and Elders; Pastors and Teachers

… These brethren are some of them esquires, who ought also to be M.P.’s, but we love them too well to dignify them. One day, I spoke …

“Westwood”

… I was especially struck with his love of nature. He lived in loving acquaintance with his beautiful surroundings. He seemed to be on terms of closest intimacy with …

Building “Our Holy and Beautiful House”

… I love those five points .us being the angles of the gospel, but then I love the centre between the angles better still. Moreover, we are Baptists, and …

The Fair Portrait of a Saint

Job 23:11

… It is very perilous to love those who love not God. He shall not be my bosom friend who is not God's friend, for I shall probably …

“In Labours More Abundant”

… You have known His love, some of you fifty years, some of you thirty, twenty, ten, three, one. For you He gave His precious life, and died upon …

Importance of Small Things in Religion

… You have never repented of your sins, but you love your evil ways, and, though warned many times, (not like Uzzah, who was taken away with a stroke …

Four Choice Sentences

Genesis 28:15

… and maintain, as long as you live, the good repute which in infinite love God has put upon your household. Are you, however, a child of godly parents …

Dr. Rippon’s Prayer and its Answer

… In the spirit of forbearance and brotherly love, he proposed that, as these friends were seceding for conscience sake, and intended to form themselves into another church, they …

Elijah's Plea

1Kings 18:36

… Have you unfeignedly repented of sin? Is your mind totally changed about sin so that what you did once love you now hate—and that which you did …

Psalm 75

Psalm 75

… They scoffed his feast of love; they shall be dragged to his table of justice, and made to drink their due deserts. And the wine is red. The …

Help for Your Sickness

Matthew 8:16

… be that your chief sin is the forgetting of God and living without love to Christ—a deadly sin, let me tell you— but bring it to the …

The Sheep Before the Shearers

… Though I give my whole heart for them, how lukewarm is their love to me! I am sick of them, I am weary of them, and it is …

Nazareth—or Jesus, Rejected by His Friends

Luke 4:28-30

… a suppliant and humbly plead, that for mercy's sake, the Lord's love would be manifested towards him. I fear that there may be a spice of …

Characteristics of Faith

John 4:48

… When I once cast my soul, sink or swim, upon the love and blood and power of Christ, though conscience give no witness to my soul, though doubts …

An Inscription for the Mausoleum of the Saints

Hebrews 11:13

… Though they sin through infirmity, they shall not sin fatally, nor sin finally, but they shall persevere in holiness and in the love of God. If they wander …

Men Bewitched

Galatians 3:1

… Some men want a sound pummeling with affliction to get them to love Christ. And some old professors need a touch of poverty, sometimes, or a little affliction …

Reminiscences as a Village Pastor

… Hard-working men on the week-day, they spared no toil for their Lord on the Sabbath; I loved them sincerely, and do love them still. In my …

The Bird Escaped from the Snare

Psalm 124:7

… And as long as you have one evil habit—one wrong thing that you really love—you have not escaped! You must be altogether separated from your sins …