Archive for September 2008

Sep 30, 2008

Union and communion

Our union with Christ, if we are truly “in him,” cannot be broken. But our communion with Christ will be dimmed and weakened if we […]

— Maurice Roberts
Sep 29, 2008

The miracle of all miracles

It is a strange thing that when men talk about the love of God, they show by every word that they utter that they have […]

— J. Gresham Machen
Sep 28, 2008

Wholly of grace

Salvation is wholly of grace, not only undeserved but undesired by us until God is pleased to awaken us to a sense of our need […]

— John Newton
Sep 27, 2008

The offensive, attractive cross

The curious paradox of the atoning death of a bloody Jesus rising above the plane of human history with a mocking crown of thorns is […]

— Mark Driscoll
Sep 26, 2008

Rest in the glorious fact that we are loved

If we are to change we must be regularly preaching the gospel to ourselves and believing it. We must be continually showing ourselves, and those […]

— Redeemer Presbyterian Church
Sep 25, 2008

The best of ambitions

I am persuaded that I shall obtain the highest amount of present happiness, I shall do most for God’s glory and the good of man, […]

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Sep 24, 2008

The cheque book of faith

Do not give me ready money now; give a cheque book, and let me draw what I like. That is what God does with the […]

— Charles Spurgeon
Sep 23, 2008

The aim of gospel ministry

To cut off the sinner from all reliance upon himself, his merits and his powers; and throw him, naked and helpless, into the hands of […]

— Ichabod S. Spencer
Sep 22, 2008

Focused on Christ and his cross

Focus on Christ will always result in focus on the cross. You cannot be Christ-centered without becoming cross-centered. The crucified Christ is to be the […]

— Paul David Tripp
Sep 21, 2008

God’s clean up operations are very strange

A deep spiritual walk with God does not usually happen immediately after conversion. When the Holy Spirit invades the enemy territory of our lives and […]

— John Piper
Sep 20, 2008

Our sufficient Savior

Jesus Christ, God’s own Son, became like us to be a total Savior, sufficient for the whole range of our need. How hollow, then, ring […]

— Richard D. Phillips
Sep 19, 2008

The blessing of Christ’s kingly office for us

The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages—such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from […]

— John Calvin
Sep 18, 2008

A live coal in the sea

All the wickedness in this world that man might work or think Is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal in […]

— William Langland
Sep 17, 2008

Sovereignty under bonds

On the throne of grace sovereignty has placed itself under bonds of love. I must speak with words choice and picked here, and I must […]

— Charles Spurgeon
Sep 16, 2008

He loves you as you are

There never was one who came to him with a broken heart, but he healed him. He never said to one, “You are too bad […]

— Charles Spurgeon
Sep 15, 2008

Though we often fail, He did not

Jesus has walked ahead of us to clear the way. He has blazed the trail of victory through perfect obedience for our salvation. Though we […]

— Richard D. Phillips
Sep 14, 2008

While man alone owed it, only God could pay it

It could not have been done unless man paid what was owing to God for sin. But the debt was so great that while man […]

— Anselm of Canterbury
Sep 13, 2008

Be cheerful, Jesus Christ makes you whole

These troubles and distresses that you go through in these waters are no sign that God has forsaken you; but they are sent to test […]

— John Bunyan
Sep 12, 2008

How are you right with God?

Even though my conscience accuses me of having grievously sinned against all God’s commandments and of never having kept any of them, and even though […]

Sep 11, 2008

A dissatisfied Messiah

The One on whom we wait is a dissatisfied Messiah. He will not relent, he will not quit, he will not rest until ever promise […]

— Paul David Tripp
Sep 10, 2008

Prayer and providence

Coming events cast their shadows before them, and when God is about to bless his people his coming favour casts the shadow of prayer over […]

— Charles Spurgeon
Sep 9, 2008

The Holy Spirit’s intercession

Within this narrow house of my body, this tenement of clay, if I be a true believer, there dwells the Holy Ghost, and when I […]

— Charles Spurgeon
Sep 8, 2008

He feels for us and he saves us

As a tempted brother, he feels for us; as a sinless brother he can save us.

— Sinclair Ferguson
Sep 7, 2008

Life in the kingdom of God

We believe that those who have been saved by the grace of God through union with Christ by faith and through regeneration by the Holy Spirit […]

— The Gospel Coalition
Sep 6, 2008

Thinking about Ourselves

Our thinking about who we are as Christians should not begin with what we can discover about ourselves by self-analysis. Rather, it begins with what […]

Sep 5, 2008

Go directly to Jesus

I feel, when I have sinned, an immediate reluctance to go to Christ. I am ashamed to go. I feel as if it would do […]

Sep 4, 2008

The gift of a new nature

Christ died, not that we might be able to form a holy nature in ourselves, but that we might receive one ready prepared and formed […]

Sep 3, 2008

God’s Fatherly Pity

Though he knows your trials will work for your good, yet he pities you. Though he knows that there is sin in you, which, perhaps, […]

Sep 2, 2008

The Spirit of adoption

Because of the self-sacrificial, self-donating work of God’s Son at the cross, God has given us none other than the Spirit of His Son, our […]

Sep 1, 2008

Gospel-Motivated Love

When my mind is fixed on the gospel, I have ample stimulation to show God’s love to other people. For I am always willing to […]