Love For Others

In preparing Peter for his work in the early church, the Lord asked Peter if he loved Him. Peter had to learn that genuine love for Christ required acts of love and concern for others. […]

Brotherly Love

In the first century after Christ, Tertullian, the Christian theologian wrote: “It is our care for the helpless, our practicing of lovingkindness, that brands us in the eyes of our opponents. ‘Look,’ they say, ‘how […]

The World’s Love

The world loves its heroes, but even this love is temporary. One may be king of the mountain one day and cast down the next. Big names of the past are often the moral and […]

Disciples

Love is a requirement of discipleship. It is the identifying Christian characteristic. The world is able to recognize one who is disciplined to Christ by his daily and practical acts of Christian love. Real Christianity […]

Love Your Enemies?

Two Christian men had a disagreement and one of them began to slander the other throughout the neighborhood. Upon hearing of it, the object of the gossip went to his indignant brother and said: “Will […]

Not Offended

The Bible contains the greatest love story ever written. Nothing in literature can compare with the Bible because it was given by inspiration of God. All that we know about the love of God is […]

God Forbid

A minister proclaimed the Gospel in an open-air meeting in Glasgow, Scotland. At the conclusion of his message, an unbeliever stepped from the crowd and said: “I don’t believe what the minister said. I don’t […]

Everlasting Love

An old Scottish woman who was alone for the greater part of each day was asked, “What do you do during the day?” “Well,” she replied, “I get my hymn book, and I have a […]

Love Thy Neighbor

The natural result of love for God is genuine love for others. Anything less is hypocrisy. Assurance of salvation is rooted in love for other Christians, made possible through the new birth: “We know that […]

The Goodness of God

Repentance is misunderstood. Some think of it as a time of deep sorrow for sin and long crying. Sorrow and tears may be a part of repentance but one may shed buckets of tears and […]

Not Ashamed

What is the Gospel? “Good news,” someone answers. True, but what is this good news? Let Paul answer: “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have […]

Love God

An old Indian chief constantly spoke of the Lord Jesus and what He meant to him. “Why do you talk so much about Jesus?” asked a friend. The old chief did not reply, but slowly, […]