Love
A Happy (and unhappy) New Year: The Love of God in Them Both
…the case of the saints throughout the world…in what unspeakable variety are they dealt with! some under persecution always,—some always at peace; some in dungeons and prisons,—some at liberty in their own houses; the saints of one nation under great oppression for many ages,—of another, in quietness; in the same places some poor, in great distress, put hard to it for […]
Do We Really Love One Another?
Read 1 Corinthians 13. I beg of you believe that scripture to be the word of God. We can love them who, as far as we know, are lovely; but that love that “beareth all things and believeth all things,” I am afraid not six of us believe that it is a duty. If we hear any […]
The Order of God’s Love Toward Us
The emanation of divine love to us begins with the Father, is carried on by the Son, and then communicated by the Spirit; the Father designing, the Son purchasing, the Spirit effectually working: which is their order. Our participation is first by the work of the Spirit, to an actual interest in the blood of the Son; […]
A Far More Admirable Work
So, then, this also is hid in Christ,—the great and unspeakable riches of the wisdom of God, in pardoning sin, saving sinners, satisfying justice, fulfilling the law, repairing his own honour, and providing for us a more exceeding weight of glory; and all this out of such a condition as wherein it was impossible that it should enter into […]
The Essential Owen 