My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things: That I am a great sinner and that Christ is a great Savior.

He parted with the greatest glory, he underwent the greatest misery, he doth the greatest works that ever were, because he loves his spouse, — […]

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you understand what He is doing. He is getting […]

Does anyone truly understand the message of the cross apart from brokenness, contrition, repentance, and faith? To repeat rather mechanically the nature of the transaction […]

There is no deep and stable spirituality that does not acknowledge what an utterly profound privilege it is to know God and be reconciled to […]

Our relationship with Jesus helps us to rest on His finished work. But the Holy Spirit helps us with what is unfinished. He shows His […]

Perhaps much of our slow progress in the walk of faith is to be traced to our overlooking the love of the Spirit. We do […]

The only people who get better are people who know that, if they never get better, God will love them anyway.

The great gospel imperatives to holiness are ever rooted in indicatives of grace that are able to sustain the weight of those imperatives. The Apostles […]

God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.

The cross is the only stand-point, and Christ is the only mirror, where God can be rightly studied and seen.

All that may be known of God for our salvation, especially his wisdom, love, goodness, grace and mercy on which the life of a soul […]

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 […]

God gave up his own Son as a ransom for us, the holy one for the lawless, the guiltless for the guilty, ‘the just for […]

We are not sent to preach sociology but salvation; not economics but evangelism; not reform but redemption; not culture but conversion; not progress but pardon; […]

But now there are two special branches of salvation, namely, justification and sanctification; and these being two different things, faith acts upon Christ for them […]

It is a great sin to think any sin little; but it is a greater sin to think the righteousness of Christ is not above […]

It is by beholding the glory of Christ by faith that we are spiritually edified and built up in this world, for as we behold […]

Union with Christ is not simply one step in salvation; it is the whole stairway on which every step is taken. Or perhaps it would […]

At its core, life in the kingdom is not so much about pursuing a thing; it is about pursuing a person. It is about having […]

I ought to go to Christ for the forgiveness of each sin. In washing my body, I go over every spot, and wash it out. […]

When I come to the Lord after I’ve blown it, I’ve only one argument to make. It’s not the argument of the difficulty of the […]

In a word, then, fallen men without the operations of the Spirit of God, are under the rule of Satan. They are led captive by […]

We conclude, therefore, that a Christian lives not in himself, but in Christ and in his neighbor. Otherwise he is not a Christian. He lives […]

If you know what He has done at infinite cost to himself—He’s put you into a relationship so that you’ll never be rejected by Him—then your […]

The foundation of the true church was laid at a mighty cost. It needed that the Son of God should take our nature upon Him, […]

He who looks upon sin merely as a fiction, as a misfortune, or as a trifle, sees no necessity either for deep repentance or a […]

There is no victory over the indwelling power of sin, and there is no pardon for the guilt of sin, but as the soul deals […]

Salvation is not merely an objective reality to be wondered at, a theological dictum to be debated about, a philosophical theory to be speculated about—not […]

Our only hope for living the radical demands of the Christian life is that God is totally for us now and forever. Therefore, God has not […]

A man is not saved because he believes in Christ; he believes in Christ because he is saved.