Archive for May 2008
At the foot of the cross
— John Stott May 30, 2008Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, ‘I am here because of you. It is your sin I am […]
I am your hell—and you are my heaven
— Thomas Brooks May 29, 2008The mediatorial righteousness of Christ will answer to all the fears, doubts, and objections of your souls. How shall I look up to God? The answer […]
Making sense of your story
— Russell D. Moore May 28, 2008It is only when I see what God is doing with the world through Christ, and for the glory of Christ, that I am able […]
In our place he lived and died
— George Whitefield May 27, 2008God the Father entered into an eternal covenant with God the Son; he made Christ the head, the representative of the elect, as Adam was […]
The Father’s stamp of approval
— John Ensor May 26, 2008The resurrection assures us that when Jesus claimed to be God’s promised Rescuer and when he claimed to have the divine authority to forgive repentant […]
The object and cause of faith
— Charles Spurgeon May 25, 2008The cross which is the object of faith, is also, by the power of the Holy Spirit, the cause of it. Sit down and watch […]
Did sin ever appear so hateful to God as here?
— Thomas Boston May 24, 2008He was the eternal and only begotten Son of God, the brightness of his Father’s glory, and the express image of his person. Yet he […]
The costly suffering of forgiveness
— Tim Keller May 23, 2008The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is wrong. Jesus’ death […]
Assured repentance
— John Calvin May 22, 2008A man cannot apply himself seriously to repentance without knowing himself to belong to God.
Self or Christ?
— Horatius Bonar May 21, 2008Self has no claims upon us, for it has done nothing for us. It has been a wall of iron between us and Christ. Is […]
Dead to the world
— John Piper May 20, 2008Being dead to the world means that every legitimate pleasure in the world becomes a blood-bought evidence of Christ’s love and an occasion of boasting […]
Christ is our law, sin and death
— Martin Luther May 19, 2008So then, while Christ is the law, He is also liberty: while He is sin (for ‘He was made sin for us’), He is righteousness: […]
Growth in grace
— Sinclair Ferguson May 18, 2008When the New Testament speaks about the fullness of grace which we find in Christ, it does not mean only forgiveness, pardon and justification. Christ […]
More than we ever dared hope
— Tim Keller May 17, 2008The gospel of justifying faith means that while Christians are, in themselves still sinful and sinning, yet in Christ, in God’s sight, they are accepted […]
It is the pierced hand that holds the golden sceptre
— Horatius Bonar May 16, 2008It is only through blood-shedding that conscience is purged; it is only at the cross that the sinner can meet with God; it is the […]
Waiting for Christ’s return
— J. C. Ryle May 15, 2008The true Scriptural source of consolation, in the face of all that troubles us, is to keep steadily before our eyes the second coming of […]
Loving Jesus like his Father does
— Jack Deere May 14, 2008I have paraphrased John 17:26 in order to pray it like this: ‘Father, grant me power from the Holy Spirit to love the Son of […]
Continual gospel re-discovery
— Tim Keller May 13, 2008All of us to some degree live around the truth of the gospel but do not ‘get’ it. So the key to continual and deeper […]
Christ has brothered us
— Sinclair Ferguson May 12, 2008The notion that because Christ has ‘brothered us’, we may become children of God, lies at the heart of the New Testament’s teaching about our […]
Our only comfort in life and death
— May 11, 2008Question 1. What is your only comfort in life and death? Answer: That I with body and soul, both in life and death, am not my […]
Jesus in the jungle
— Sinclair Ferguson May 10, 2008The Gospel writers underline the fact that Christ did not come to the Garden of Eden, but to a fallen, broken world to be a […]
From whoops to wow
— John Ensor May 9, 2008Redemption is God saving us from our whoops and restoring back to us our original wow.
A puddle of incomprehensible love soaking into the soil
— Louie Giglio May 8, 2008On the Friday we call Good Jesus was the only one at the cross who could possibly die. Because he was the only living soul […]
God in skin marching steadily to the beat of his own love
— Louie Giglio May 7, 2008God is eager to share his take on you. Here it is. Mess Up. Definitely. Deeply Loved. Anyway. Both are true and both things set him […]
Sin and grace
— Leon Morris May 6, 2008We can think of forgiveness as something real only when we hold that sin has betrayed us into a situation where we deserve to have […]
From alienation to membership in his family
— Sinclair Ferguson May 5, 2008The story of paradise lost becoming paradise regained is the story of God’s grace bringing us from alienation from him to membership in his family. […]
Pierced for our transgressions
— Steve Jeffery, Michael Ovey and Andrew Sach May 4, 2008The Bible speaks with a clear and united witness. Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed. The Servant was pierced for our transgressions. He died, […]
The justification of sinners
— The Gospel Coalition May 3, 2008We believe that Christ, by his obedience and death, fully discharged the debt of all those who are justified. By his sacrifice, he bore in […]
Christ’s growth and our growth
— Sinclair Ferguson May 2, 2008Our faith can only receive what grace provides and can only believe what Scripture reveals. But faith should receive everything grace provides and Scripture reveals. […]
Repentance, not despair
— John Calvin May 1, 2008Those who are truly religious experience what sort of punishments are shame, confusion, groaning, displeasure with self, and other emotions that arise out of a […]
Completely free of all condemnation
— C. J. MahaneyBecause of the gospel’s power, you can be completely free of all condemnation. Not mostly free; completely free. Don’t buy the lie that cultivating condemnation […]

