Crumbs from the Master's Table

"All God's commandments, one of which is, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery,' and all those precepts which are not commandmen...

With all the buzz about doing evangelism in the church today, it would be helpful if the church exercised a bit more insight and genuine nei...

"Love of benevolence is that disposition which a man has who desires or delights in the good of another. And this is the main thing in ...

"To be kind is to have a disposition freely to do good. Whatever good is done, it is no proper kindness in the doer of it unless it be ...

Edwards on Christian meekness, from a sermon on 1 Cor. 13:4 in his justly famous series Charity and Its Fruits : If men after they are off...

The meeting house where Edwards preached "Charity and Its Fruits" Jonathan Edwards' sermons on 1 Corinthians 13, preached ...

"The challenge of love, of course, is that it is so multi-faceted. It runs the gamut from taking a bullet for someone to kicking them o...

N. D. Wilson: Death is now. The choice is here.  Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is dra...

Augustine: But what do I love when I love my God? Not material beauty or beauty of a temporal order; not the brilliance of earthly light, ...

"To desire my fellow creatures' good and to seek after it, to desire God's glory, and so to live as to promote it, is the trues...

St. Augustin's God-besotted God-centeredness in the Confessions  is well known. Reading through the  Confessions , I'm struck also b...

Augustine on the charms of friendship: We could talk and laugh together and exchange small acts of kindness. We could join in the pleasure...

"For though they cling together, no friends are true friends unless you, my God, bind them fast to one another through that love which ...

I'm enjoying thoroughly sitting at Professor Dan Block's feet in an exegesis class on Deuteronomy at Wheaton College. And one of the...

C. H. Spurgeon sees Christian in Pilgrim's Progress as an example of being charitable toward all who profess to be Christians. In the wo...

Luther's counsel for praying through the sixth commandment: "You shall not kill." Here I learn, first of all, that God desire...

Martin Luther (citing Augustine, I believe) once said somewhere that the primal and primary problem with humanity is that we are curved in o...

A Lutheran prayer for a charitable disposition: Give us true obedience and perfect resignation in all things temporal and eternal. Preserve...

I've been reading, almost every morning, a prayer written by Martin Luther (1483-1546). Here was a man who went after the heart of God! ...

Yesterday's Lord's Day  sermon  on Eph. 2:1-10, preached by NCC pastor Andrew Fulton, provided liberating food for the dull duty-bou...