Luke 12:50 NLT

Fragrant Spices from the Mountains of Myrrh by Spurgeon " You are all fair, My love; there is no spot in you. " Solomon's Song 4:7 How marvelous are these words! "You are all fair, My love; there is no spot in you." The glorious Bridegroom is charmed with His spouse, and sings soft canticles of admi... Read More

The Love of Christ in Giving Himself for the Church Preached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, on December 13, 1857, by J. C. Philpot "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it ; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the wor... Read More

The Love of Christ! William Nicholson, 1862 "May have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ , and to know this love that surpasses knowledge!" Ephesians 3:18-19 The love of Christ is the most interesting subject that can be presented ... Read More

Christ's Agony! Jonathan Edwards , 1703-1758 "And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground." Luke 22:44 Our Lord Jesus Christ, in his original nature, was infinitely above all suffering, for he was "God over all, blessed... Read More

Is There a Hell? Archibald G. Brown, September 12, 1869, Stepney Green Tabernacle, London "What shall the end be of those who do no obey the gospel of God?" 1 Peter 4:17 I am free to confess, dear friends, that I never came upon this platform with a greater sense of responsibility weighing upon me t... Read More

Thoughts on the Christian Life; or, Leaves from Letters Hetty Bowman, 1872 INTRODUCTORY NOTE Under the touching circumstances of the early and lamented death of her who wrote this volume, I cannot refuse a request made to me, that I should write a few prefatory lines. The name of "Hetty Bowman" is n... Read More

The Surety's Baptism By Horatius Bonar, 1867 "I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is completed! Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division." Luke 12:49-51 Mess... Read More

Directions for Governing the Appetite Or, Directions against Gluttony Richard Baxter, 1615-1691 The most that is necessary to be said to acquaint you with the nature and evil of this sin, is said before in my chapter, The Sinfulness of Flesh-Pleasing . But something more particularly must be said: 1... Read More

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:10 We are now come to the last beatitude: Blessed are they which are persecuted . . '. Our Lord Christ would have us reckon the cost. Which of you intending to build a tower sitteth not down ... Read More

"But his delight is in the law of the LORD." [Psalm 1:2] CHAPTER I. Shewing that Negative Goodness is but a broken Title to Heaven. AS the book of the Canticles is called the Song of Songs by an Hebraism, it being the most excellent; so this psalm may not unfitly be entitled, the Psalm of Psalms, fo... Read More