Wednesday, February 24, 2016

The Lesson of Love



The Lesson of Love


By J.R. Miller


Table of Contents


    Preface - The Lesson of Love J. R. Miller, 1903 PREFACE To learn how to love--is to learn how to live. The lesson is a long one--but it is the great bu ...read
    Chapter 1 - The LESSON of Love - Christian love has to be learned. There is natural affection which does not need to be learned--the love of parents for children, of children for pare ...read
    Chapter 2 - Things That are LOVELY - Nothing that is not beautiful, is fit for a place in a Christly life. Strength is essential--but strength need not be rough and unlovely; art has lear ...read
    Chapter 3 - To SUFFER and Love On - "Then Jesus said to his disciples--If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me!" Matthew 16:24 A Christ ...read
    Chapter 4 - The Hurt of FLATTERY - "You know we never used flattery!" 1 Thessalonians 2:5 "A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a flattering mouth works ruin!" Proverbs 26:28 "He ...read
    Chapter 5 - "Nor Life" - "I am convinced that neither death nor life . . . will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:38-39 ...read
    Chapter 6 - Having the Mind of Christ - "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." Philippians 2:5 The ideal Christian life, is one in which the mind that was in Christ Je ...read
    Chapter 7 - The Second Mile - One of our Lord's remarkable exhortations is, "Whoever shall compel you to go one mile--go with him two." That is, do more than you are expected to do ...read
    Chapter 8 - Losing SELF in Christ - "If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but ...read
    Chapter 9 - Growing By Abandonment - "One thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called m ...read
    Chapter 10 - Leaving Things Undone - Among the memorabilia of a departed godly man, it is said: "He left nothing undone." That is more than can be said of most people. The best of us are ...read
    Chapter 11 - Living for the BEST Things - In one of our Lord's lesser parables, there is a pleasant story of a man who was in the pearl business. He was always on the quest for pearls. He must ...read
    Chapter 12 - Serving and Following Christ - 'Tis not for man to trifle-- Life is brief, and sin is here! Our age is but the falling of a leaf, The dropping of a tear! Not many lives, but only on ...read
    Chapter 13 - Citizenship in Heaven - Our Lord spoke a great deal of a kingdom that is not of this world. He said this kingdom does not come with observation; that is, men do not see its p ...read
    Chapter 14 - Gladdened to Gladden - Perhaps we do not think often enough of the responsibility of JOY. When God makes us glad the gladness is not to end with ourselves--we are to pass it ...read
    Chapter 15 - The Gentleness of Christ - Gentleness is not weakness. The true man is always strong. Tourists sometimes find high up on the Alps, on some bald crag, on the edge of the eternal ...read
    Chapter 16 - Would Our Way Be Better? - We often think we could do better--if things were in our hands. We think we could direct our affairs so as to get more happiness and greater good out ...read
    Chapter 17 - In the Father's Hands - "Our Father in heaven." Matthew 6:9 There is infinite comfort in the truth of the divine Fatherhood. The name 'Father' carries in it a whole theolo ...read
    Chapter 18 - One Day at a Time - "And there was evening, and there was morning--the first day." Genesis 1:5 One of the secrets of happy and beautiful life, is to live one day at a ...read
    Chapter 19 - True Friendship's Wishes - Paul has given us many lessons in friendship. He himself had a genius for friendship, and no one can study him in his relation to his friends without ...read
    Chapter 20 - Christ in Our Everydays - "Casting all your cares upon Him; for He cares for you!" 1 Peter 5:7 Some people seem to miss altogether--the thought of bringing Christ into their ...read
    Chapter 21 - In Tune With God - In music, everything depends on tune. It is so also in living. Many people are like instruments out of tune, sometimes badly out of tune. There is no ...read

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