No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever […]

So it was necessary, since God had purposed to save his church, to transfer the punishment from them who deserved it but could not bear […]

Our entire confidence in our acceptance before God is based solely upon the fact that Jesus was our legal representative in His sinless life and […]

God cannot look where there is sin with any pleasure, and though as far as Jesus is personally concerned, he is the Father’s beloved Son […]

To worship God ‘in spirit and in truth’ is first and foremost a way of saying that we must worship God by means of Christ. […]

None so tender-hearted and sympathising with sick souls as Jesus Christ; he is one that can have compassion, because he has had experience. If I […]

You might think that you are unworthy to have such a great gift as union with Christ. Remember, however, Christ shed his precious blood to […]

The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to died for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus […]

Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed. Faith is a redirecting of our […]

God did not create us to get the cosmic, infinite joy of mutual love and glorification, but to share it. We were to join in […]

The Trinitarian view of worship is that it is the gift of participating through the Spirit in the incarnate Son’s communion with the Father. That […]

It is Christ set forth in His blood who is a propitiation; that is, it is Christ who died. In dying, as St. Paul conceived […]

Justification by Faith does not mean salvation by believing things instead of by doing right. It means pleading the merits of Christ before the throne […]

The fact that Jesus was raised in the middle of human history, and not at the very end of it, means that God has not […]

Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction. […]

If Jesus is your center and Lord and you fail him, he will forgive you. Your career can’t die for your sins. You might say, […]

Bring your heart with its profoundest emptiness, its most startling discovery of sin, its lowest frame, its deepest sorrow, and sink it into the depths […]

No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.

How can we recover the new affection for Christ and his kingdom that so powerfully impacted our life-long worldliness, and in which we crucified the […]

God created both soul and body, and the resurrection of Jesus shows that he is going to redeem both the spiritual and the material. Therefore […]

Note how often the Scriptures speak of Christ in his glory as ‘the Lamb.’ The multitude which no man can number stand with palms of victory […]

Like the fascination which attracts the gnat to the candle, though it burns its wings, men by nature fly to the law for salvation, and […]

What we all desperately need to see is that the love of a holy God is manifested covenantally at the cross. In the sacrifice of […]

Our redemption is a work at once of price and of power — of expiation and of conquest. On the cross was the purchase made, […]

Jesus Christ did not rise alone. He rose as the head of a whole body of people elected to have faith in him, to benefit […]

All inadequate doctrines of the atonement are due to inadequate doctrines of God and man. If we bring God down to our level and raise […]

That Christian who has free grace, who has free justification, who has the mediatorial righteousness of Christ, who has the satisfaction of Christ, who has […]

When we think of Christ dying on the cross we are shown the lengths to which God’s love goes in order to win us back […]

If the beauty of what Jesus did moves you, that is the first step toward getting out of your own self-centeredness and fear into a […]

Ah! you lamenting souls, that spend your days in sighing and groaning under the sense and burden of your sins, why do you deal so […]