Someone once said, “The days grow shorter, the nights grow longer, the gravestones are thicker along the way; the life grows sadder, but love grows stronger for those who walk with Christ day by day.”
Another poet wrote, “Love covers a multitude of sins. It is like the painter who was hired to paint the picture of a friend who had a crooked eye. He painted the other side of his face.”
Longfellow wrote, “True love gives itself; it can never be bought at any price.”
“True love looks through a telescope; jealousy and envy, through a microscope.” -Henry Shaw
“Love that has nothing but beauty, gifts, and service to keep it in good health will soon drop dead.” -Erasmus
“Too often our first love and our last love is self-love. Our Lord exhorts us to love others as we love ourselves, and to love God more.”
“We never know how much a person loves until we know how much he is willing to suffer and endure for the object of his love. Our Lord declared that it is the giving element that measures love. ‘For God so loved that he gave.’ ‘Greater love hath no man than this, that he laid down his life.’ In other words, the happiness of one who loves depends on the happiness and well-being of the one he loves.”
Love is the greatest gift that God can give to us, for himself is love; and it is the greatest thing we can give to others. The Apostle calls it the bond of perfectness. It is the old, the new, the great commandment, and all the commandments; for it is the fulfilling of the law.
Love produces all the other graces with no motivation but itself.
About Henry Mahan
Henry T. Mahan was born in Birmingham, Alabama in August 1926. He joined the United States Navy in 1944 and served as a signalman on an L.S.T. in the Pacific during World War II. In 1946, he married his wife Doris, and the Lord blessed them with four children.
At the age of 21, he entered the pastoral ministry and gained broad experience as a pastor, teacher, conference speaker, and evangelist. In 1950, through the preaching of evangelist Rolfe Barnard, God was pleased to establish Henry in sovereign free grace teaching. At that time, he was serving as an assistant pastor at Pollard Baptist Church (off of Blackburn ave.) in Ashland, Kentucky.
In 1955, Thirteenth Street Baptist Church was formed in Ashland, Kentucky, and Henry was called to be its pastor. He faithfully served that congregation for more than 50 years, continuing in the same message throughout his ministry. His preaching was centered on the Lord Jesus Christ and Him crucified, in full accord with the Scriptures. He consistently proclaimed God’s sovereign purpose in salvation and the glory of Christ in redeeming sinners through His blood and righteousness.
Henry T. Mahan also traveled widely, preaching in conferences and churches across the United States and beyond. His ministry was marked by a clear and unwavering emphasis on Christ, not the preacher, but the One preached. Those who heard him recognized that his sermons honored the Savior and exalted the name of the Lord Jesus Christ above all.
Henry T. Mahan served as pastor and teacher of Thirteenth Street Baptist Church in Ashland, Kentucky for over half a century. His life and ministry were devoted to proclaiming the sovereign grace of God and directing sinners to the finished work of Christ. He entered into the presence of the Lord in 2019, leaving behind a lasting testimony to the gospel he faithfully preached.
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