The heavenly world does not appear desirable as simply a second improved edition of this life; that would be nothing else than earthly-mindedness projected into […]

Everywhere creation calls for the honoring of God’s standards. Everywhere humanity’s sinfulness disrupts and deforms. Everywhere Christ’s victory is pregnant with the defeat of sin […]

The central and simple message of the New Testament is that the promised age to come has dawned, the promised victory over what has emptied […]

Meaning comes from God alone. In the person of Christ, the age to come, which alone will endure for all eternity, has arrived. It arrived […]

Not self-conscious nor self-confident, a Christian is liberated to be self-forgetful.

Our Lord Jesus Christ is doing for His people the work which the Jewish high-priest of old did on behalf of the Israelites. He is […]

All that Christ did and suffered, from the manger to the tomb, forms one glorious whole, no part of which shall ever become needless or […]

There really is no place for Christ in many people’s Christianity. Their faith is not actually in Christ; it is in Christianity and their ability […]

Christ’s rule is contested in the sense that while evil is even now under his sovereign rule, and even though its doom has been declared, […]

The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus […]

Think it out! The only way for Jesus to get us out of our spiritual poverty and into spiritual riches was to get out of […]

And here is the source of true kindness. The salvation of Jesus humbles us profoundly – we are so lost that he had to die […]

I have heard of a book entitled ‘The Story without an End.’ I know no story deserving that title so well as the everlasting Gospel: […]

I hope what you find in yourself by daily experience, will humble you—but not discourage you. For if our Physician is almighty—our disease cannot be […]

The task of God’s people is to make known the good news of God’s renewed reign over the entirety of creation. Christ’s kingly authority extends […]

On this side of eternity, Christmas is still a promise. Yes, the Savior has come, and with him peace on earth, but the story is […]

God is the ultimate musician. His music transforms your life. The notes of redemption rearrange your heart and restore your life. His songs of forgiveness, […]

If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to […]

Come for repentance, if you cannot come repenting. Come for a broken heart, if you cannot come with a broken heart. Come to be melted, […]

It happens over and over again that the gospel ‘comes alive’ in a way that the evangelist had never dreamed of, and has effects which […]

Remember, the growth of a believer is not like a mushroom—but like an oak, which increases slowly indeed—but surely. Many suns, showers, and frosts, pass […]

Viewed as a whole, the Christian account of history is eschatological not only in the sense that it comes to a definitive and everlasting end, […]

God is the one Being in the entire universe for whom self-centeredness, or the pursuit of his own glory, is the ultimately loving act. For […]

Jesus, unlike the founder of any other major faith, holds out hope for ordinary human life. Our future is not an ethereal, impersonal form of […]

How can the inner workings of the heart be changed from a dynamic of fear and anger to that of love, joy, and gratitude? Here […]

How can you tell if he is working on you now? If you begin to sense your lostness and find yourself wanting to escape it, […]

All that has enriched and honoured the life of all nations in all history will be brought in to enrich the new ceation. The new […]

Christian hope is not about wishing things will get better. It is not about hoping that emptiness will go away, meaning return, and life will […]

How modest we need to be in using a word like ‘theodicy’! For the judgment that has befallen us, we who live east of Eden, […]

We cannot remain faithful and question God’s own faithfulness. His love for those who are in Christ is beyond question. His character is a constant and […]

If I may speak my own experience, I find that to keep my eye simply on Christ, as my peace and my life, is by […]