Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, ‘I am here because of you. It is your sin I am […]

The 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 […]

It is only when I see what God is doing with the world through Christ, and for the glory of Christ, that I am able […]

God 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 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 cross which is the object of faith, is also, by the power of the Holy Spirit, the cause of it. Sit down and watch […]

He 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 Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is wrong. Jesus’ death […]

A man cannot apply himself seriously to repentance without knowing himself to belong to God.

Self has no claims upon us, for it has done nothing for us. It has been a wall of iron between us and Christ. Is […]

Being 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 […]

So then, while Christ is the law, He is also liberty: while He is sin (for ‘He was made sin for us’), He is righteousness: […]

When the New Testament speaks about the fullness of grace which we find in Christ, it does not mean only forgiveness, pardon and justification. Christ […]

The 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 only through blood-shedding that conscience is purged; it is only at the cross that the sinner can meet with God; it is the […]

The true Scriptural source of consolation, in the face of all that troubles us, is to keep steadily before our eyes the second coming of […]

I 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 […]

All of us to some degree live around the truth of the gospel but do not ‘get’ it. So the key to continual and deeper […]

The 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 […]

Question 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 […]

The Gospel writers underline the fact that Christ did not come to the Garden of Eden, but to a fallen, broken world to be a […]

Redemption is God saving us from our whoops and restoring back to us our original wow.

On 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 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 […]

We can think of forgiveness as something real only when we hold that sin has betrayed us into a situation where we deserve to have […]

The 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. […]

The Bible speaks with a clear and united witness. Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed. The Servant was pierced for our transgressions. He died, […]

We believe that Christ, by his obedience and death, fully discharged the debt of all those who are justified. By his sacrifice, he bore in […]

Our faith can only receive what grace provides and can only believe what Scripture reveals. But faith should receive everything grace provides and Scripture reveals. […]

Those who are truly religious experience what sort of punishments are shame, confusion, groaning, displeasure with self, and other emotions that arise out of a […]

Because 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 […]