Archive for October 2007
A gate of heaven
— Martin Luther Oct 30, 2007I greatly longed to understand Paul’s Epistle to the Romans and nothing stood in the way but that one expression, ‘the justice of God,’ [Rom. […]
The incomparable price
— Martin Luther Oct 29, 2007If thou couldst rightly consider the incomparable price, thou shouldst hold as accursed all those ceremonies, vows, works, and merits before grace and after, and […]
One with Christ
— Martin Luther Oct 28, 2007Faith therefore must be purely taught: namely, that thou art so entirely joined unto Christ, that He and thou art made as it were one […]
The defeat of evil
— T. F. Torrance Oct 27, 2007It is in His death that He destroys the wolf, so that the blackest place on earth, where the Son of God is crucified, becomes […]
Held by love
— Charles Spurgeon Oct 26, 2007When I thought, “My foot slips,” your steadfast love, O LORD, held me up. (Psalm 94:18) I perceived my danger, and cried out in horror, […]
The Jesus of history
— John Chapman Oct 25, 2007My ‘experience’ of Jesus can and must only be understood in terms of God’s revelation of him in the Scriptures. The gospel is anchored in […]
No Christian in his wits
— Thomas Brooks Oct 24, 2007There is no Christian in his wits who will dare to adventure the everlasting safety of his soul upon the leaking vessels of his own […]
Christless, grace-less attempts at change . .
— David Powlison Oct 23, 2007No one can truly change who does not know and rely on gifts from the hand of the Lord. Since Christ is both Giver and […]
Jesus is the glory of God
— John Piper Oct 22, 2007Jesus Christ is the Creator of the universe. Jesus Christ is the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last. Jesus Christ, the Person, never […]
The freer the better
— Thomas Chalmers Oct 21, 2007Retain a single shred or fragment of legality with the gospel, and you raise a topic of distrust between man and God. You take away […]
A land of forgetfulness
— John Owen Oct 20, 2007Never more glorious and desirable than when he came broken, dead, from the cross. Then had he carried all our sins into a land of […]
Christ triumphs over our sin
— Richard Sibbes Oct 19, 2007There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.
A new creature in Christ
— Horatius Bonar Oct 18, 2007If I am a new creature in Christ, then I stand before God, not in myself—but in Christ. He sees no longer me—but only him […]
Death and life with Christ
— Robert S. Candlish Oct 17, 2007For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. (Col 3:3) You are dead. In and with Christ you are habitually, […]
Thou lovely source of true delight
— Anne Steele Oct 16, 2007Thou lovely Source of true delight, Whom I unseen adore; Unveil Thy beauties to my sight, That I may love Thee more. Thy glory o’er creation […]
The gospel and the vindication of God’s glory
— John Piper Oct 15, 2007The foundation of our justification — our acquittal, our forgiveness — is not a flimsy sentimentality in God, nor is it a shallow claim of […]
All believers dear to Christ
— John Owen Oct 14, 2007In a word, there is not the meanest, the weakest, the poorest believer on the earth, but Christ prizeth him more than all the world […]
A divine and supernatural light
— Jonathan Edwards Oct 13, 2007This light is such as effectually influences the inclination, and changes the nature of the soul. It assimilates our nature to the divine nature, and […]
Christianity is about Jesus
— J. C. Ryle Oct 12, 2007It is well to be acquainted with all the doctrines and principles of Christianity. It is better to be acquainted with Christ Himself. It is […]
A most complete work
— Thomas Brooks Oct 11, 2007Jesus Christ has completely done the work of our redemption. He does not redeem us from some of our sins, and leave us to grapple […]
Faith is rest, not toil
— Horatius Bonar Oct 10, 2007Man, in his natural spirit of self-justifying legalism, has tried to get away from the cross of Christ and its perfection, or to erect another […]
The dawning of heaven
— John Owen Oct 9, 2007Make up your mind that to behold the glory of God by beholding the glory of Christ is the greatest privilege which is given to […]
God is with us in Christ
— Octavius Winslow Oct 8, 2007Could any single point be more distinctly stated and more conclusively proved than this, that our Divine and adorable Redeemer constitutes, in His person, a […]
You have to do with Jesus
— J. C. Ryle Oct 8, 2007If any reader knows what it is to go to the throne of grace for mercy and pardon, let him never forget that the Mediator […]
The design of the gospel
— John Calvin Oct 7, 2007Observe, that the design of the gospel is this– that the image of God, which had been effaced by sin, may be stamped anew upon […]
The gate of life
— John Calvin Oct 6, 2007The office of the law is to show us the disease, in such a way as to show us, at the same time, no hope […]
Knowledge of the gospel imparted by the Spirit
— D. A. Carson Oct 5, 2007Our obtuseness, our deep self-centeredness, our love of pomp and power and prestige, simply would not have allowed us to understand the cross or our […]
Outside Christ there is nothing worth knowing
— John Calvin Oct 4, 2007Outside Christ there is nothing worth knowing, and all who by faith perceive what he is like have grasped the whole immensity of heavenly benefits.
Christ, the conqueror of Satan
— Charles Spurgeon Oct 3, 2007Though Satan is not dead, yet Christ has so far broken his head that he has missed his mark altogether. He intended to make the […]
Faith that feeds upon Christ
— George Downame Oct 2, 2007We must understand that faith does not justify and save us by itself, but as an instrument, whereby we lay hold of and apply to […]
On the law and the gospel
— Ralph Erskine Oct 1, 2007The law supposing I have all, Does ever for perfection call; The gospel suits my total want, And all the law can seek does grant. The […]
Substitution lies at the heart of sin and salvation
— John StottThe concept of substitution may be said to lie at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself […]