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Do you burn with the zeal to be “better” than someone else? Love does not envy the attention someone else may receive. Does it ever rub you the wrong way when someone else is publicly honored and you’re not? True love is not jealous of what someone else may have or do; love genuinely delights […]

I lay down this morning with great boldness—because I know and am well persuaded that what I speak is the mind of the Spirit—this doctrine that the sole and only warrant for a sinner to believe in Jesus is found in the gospel itself and in the command which accompanies that gospel, “Believe in the […]

Brethren, I would not darken counsel by words without knowledge. “Believing” is most clearly explained by that simple word “trust.” Believing is partly the intellectual operation of receiving divine truths, but the essence of it lies in relying upon those truths. I believe that, although I cannot swim, yonder friendly plank will support me in […]

Love is gentle and mild and displays kindness to others. Sometimes our words or actions are mean and shrewd to others. Little “jabs” or “sarcasms” will often wound others. None of us like to associate with someone who is always uttering unkind words or doing unkind deeds. Aren’t you grateful Jesus Christ is loving and […]

This means we are patient in bearing the offenses and injuries of others. When someone is offensive, do you “suffer long” or do you quickly react? In other words, love backs away and allows God time to work in a person’s life without injecting our own will. Love does not give up or lose heart […]