If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He […]

Ready for some good news? Jesus Christ is stronger! Stronger than my fears about the future or my shame over a past that cannot be altered […]

There are two ‘courts’ we must deal with: the court of God in Heaven and the court of conscience in our souls. When we first […]

If you want rest come to Christ in Gethsemane, to Christ on Calvary, to Christ risen, to Christ ascended. If you want rest, O weary […]

Before you can ever make a clean and unamended confession of your sin, you have to first begin by confessing your righteousness. It’s not just […]

Healing from duty, and not from Christ, is the most desperate disease.

Grace is for the willing and we only become willing when we confess not only the gravity of our sin, but our inability to deliver […]

The solidarity of mankind is such that, by virtue of the Word’s indwelling in a single human body, the corruption which goes with death has […]

From the far star points of his pinned extremities, cold inched in—black ice and squid ink— till the hung flesh was empty. Lonely in that […]

In the religious approach, repentance separates you from the source of your power and your hope and your confidence — because that’s a good record. […]

Every time you acknowledge your sin, you long for Jesus too. But you’re not longing for the final sacrifice, because it’s already been made. No, […]

Those whom God effectually calls, He also freely justifies, not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons […]

To live for yourself is to rob yourself of your own humanity. It is only in living for Christ that we actually begin to become […]

The mother never has such success in showing her affection to her child as when he is in distress, sick, poor, or imprisoned. So Christ […]

I have often wondered, perhaps in part simply because the term is so rarely used today, what it might mean to ‘glorify’ God forever. It […]

Our sins are great; every sin is great; but there are some that in our apprehension seem to be greater than others. There are crimes […]

I do not know who was the inventor of that idea of ‘sinning away the day of grace.’ If you are willing to have Christ, you […]

The Cross was at once the most horrible and the most beautiful example of God’s wrath. It was the most just and the most gracious […]

Christ’s death to sin and His satisfaction of God’s justice opened the way for the reign of grace in our lives.

The answer to the problem of evil does not lie in trying to establish its point of origin, for that is simply not revealed to […]

Thanks to the cross, evil is now utterly subverted in the cause of good. If the cross of Christ, the most evil act in human […]

Our circumstances are all in opposition to the promises of God. He promises us immortality: yet we are surrounded by mortality and corruption. He declares […]

We must not be grieved, that we have nothing to trust upon besides Christ for our salvation; but rather we are to rejoice, that we […]

Gethsemane provides the medicine for the ills which followed upon the forbidden fruit of Eden.

There is no greater burden in this world than the guilt of our sin. Other burdens weary the feet or the back; this burden wearies […]

If fearing to be too confident, lest we should believe a lie, we should come to Christ doubtingly and in mere suspense whether we should […]

A Christian is an impregnable person. He is a person that never can be conquered. Emmanuel became man to make the church and every Christian […]

There is no such ‘thing’ as grace! Grace is not some appendage to Christ’s being. All there is is the Lord Jesus Himself. And so […]

Through the person and work of Jesus Christ, God fully accomplishes salvation for us, rescuing us from judgment for sin into fellowship with him, and […]

True faith is not only a knowledge and conviction that everything God reveals in his Word is true; it is also a deep-rooted assurance, created […]

When the Christian trusts, he is happy; when he doubts, he is miserable. When the believer looks to his Master and relies upon him, he […]