Why Do You Love Christ?

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Matt Jury under David Brainerd

Selfish religion loves Christ for His benefits, but not for Himself.

David Brainerd (1718-1747)

The Greatest Contradiction of All

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Matt Jury under Peter Marshall

How strange it is that all of the things we humans love, our Lord, who is love and goodness and grace, should Himself receive so little love.

The Prayers of Peter Marshall, p. 46

How the Beauty and Love of God Shines

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Matt Jury under Thomas Watson

As the face is represented in a glass, so in Christ, as in a transparent glass, we see God’s beauty and love shine forth.

Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments, p. 50

True Love

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Matt Jury under John Hardon

If you expect to be loved in return, you are not practicing Christian love.

John A. Hardon (1914-2000)

Love Is…

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Matt Jury under Oswald Chambers

Love is the sovereign preference of one person for another person.

Oswald Chambers, The Love of God, p. 95

Sharing the Love of Christ with Each Other

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Matt Jury under Timothy Savage

What is perhaps most striking about God’s love, and what is certainly most pertinent to our understanding of the church, is that the Lord wants to share his love with us, not only by making us the objects of that love but also by equipping us to share that love with others. By creating us in his image, he has fitted us to reproduce the inter-relational love of the Trinitarian family, passing back and forth among members of our families the love that reverberates within the holy Godhead.

Timothy Savage, The Church: God’s New People, 11

HT: Of First Importance

Take up Your Cross

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Matt Jury under D. T. Niles

We often read in the Gospels that Jesus asked His disciples to carry their cross and follow Him (Matt. 16.24). The Cross is not the difficulties we meet on the road of our discipleship. It is not poverty or sickness or antagonism. The Cross is the burden we bear because in Jesus’ name we keep on loving those who do not want us to love them.

D. T. Niles, The Preacher’s Task and the Stone of Stumbling, p. 53

What the Cross Teaches Us

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Matt Jury under Richard Wurmbrand

By the cross we know the gravity of sin and the greatness of God’s love towards men.

Richard Wurmbrand, If That Were Christ, Would You Give Him Your Blanket?, p. 40

What Is the Extent of God’s Love?

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Matt Jury under Anthony Campolo

It is arrogant to say that what I have done and what I am is greater than God’s capacity to love.

Anthony Campolo, It’s Friday, But Sunday’s Comin’, pp. 40-41

Infinitely Worthy of Your Love

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Matt Jury under Jonathan Edwards

He suffered not from his Father for his faults, but ours; and he suffered from men not for his faults but for those things on account of which he was infinitely worthy of their love and honor.

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) in The Excellency of Christ