Christ’s blood is the laver of initial cleansing but it is also the fountain to which the believer must continually repair. It is at the […]

Preaching the gospel to myself each day mounts a powerful assault against my pride and serves to establish humility in its place. Nothing suffocates my […]

Salvation is not a detached gift of God in some gracious and miraculous way bestowed upon man. Salvation is Christ, and to experience salvation is […]

Satan, with all his wits and wiles, shall never defeat a soul armed with true grace. Let the devil choose his way. God is a […]

Be confident in expecting great things from God, for though you may be unworthy, and grace will show you your own unworthiness, yet you stand […]

Godly sorrow for sin is wrought in us by believing the pardoning grace of God. We will not like to be sorry for grieving God […]

The duties that God, in an ordinary way, requires at our hands are not proportioned to what strength we have in ourselves, but to what help and […]

On the most basic levels, I desire fullness, and fleshly lusts seduce me by attaching themselves to this basic desire. They exploit the empty spaces […]

The notion that we are children of God, his own sons and daughters, lies at the heart of all Christian theology, and is the mainspring […]

As the gospel spreads throughout the world, this new and variegated Christian community develops. It is as if a great drama is being enacted. History […]

The root of faith can never be torn from the godly breast, but clings so fast to the inmost parts that, however faith seems to […]

Jesus shocked the established authorities by being a friend to all—not only to the destitute and hungry, but also to those rich extortioners, the tax-collectors, […]

Any step that is taken in any way, by strength not immediately from Christ, is one step towards hell. He first takes us by the […]

Though we changeth every day, he changeth not. Could any kind of provocation turn it away, it had long since ceased.

Honest prayer unmasks your real need and puts you in the presence of a rich Christ who wants to meet you as you really are […]

Repentance has nothing to do with what man has done. Rather it is man’s coming undone in respect to all human righteousness, followed by his […]

The discipline of the cross is most needful to repress the overweening confidence of presumption; to establish an habitual confidence in the Divine promises; to […]

Imagine you are on a high cliff and you lose your footing and begin to fall. Just beside you is a branch sticking out of […]

Considering the preciousness of the blood of God whereby we are redeemed, we should dishonour God if we should not expect a miraculous advancement to […]

Oftimes has Providence, with a rough hand, thrown countless gain in our way in the form of the trial of our faith, which is much […]

Cast your deadly ‘doing’ down— Down at Jesus’ feet; Stand in Him, in Him alone, Gloriously complete.

For all of its joy and celebration and for all of its gifts of life and grace, the Kingdom of God is a kingdom of […]

While we are looking at God we do not see ourselves — blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had […]

Truly to grasp that the eternal God, our Maker and Judge, has out of inexpressible grace sent his Son to die the odious death of […]

The gospel is not a set of beliefs that arise, or could arise, from empirical observations of the whole human experience. It is the announcement […]

I must not only wash in Christ’s blood, but clothe me in Christ’s obedience. For every sin of omission in self, I may find a […]

The Spirit, we might say, is the matchmaker, the celestial marriage broker, whose role it is to bring us and Christ together and ensure that […]

Know Jesus. Sit as His feet. Consider His nature, His works, His sufferings, His glory. Rejoice in HIs presence; commune with Him day to day. […]

My dear brother, we must not mind a little suffering for Christ’s sake. When I am getting through a hedge, if my head and shoulders […]

The true Christian is the only happy man, because his conscience is at peace. That mysterious witness for God, which is so mercifully placed within […]

God makes man in His image, but man may not replicate that image as the center of his worship. Of course, Israel had to be […]

God’s grace means that I can rest assured that I’ll have everything I need to be what he wants me to be and to do […]