Archive for January 2009

Jan 31, 2009

Nothing to prove

You don’t have anything to prove to us or the world. The work is finished at Calvary, and that work has unlimited meaning and value. […]

— C. John Miller
Jan 30, 2009

The true message of Jesus

Jesus’s teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day. However, in the main, our churches today do not have […]

— Tim Keller
Jan 30, 2009

Grace infinite and everlasting

We often feel as if grace had done its utmost when it has carried us safely through the desert, and set us down at the […]

— Horatius Bonar
Jan 29, 2009

The regeneration of all creation

Our renewal is tied to the eschatological renewal of the creation. We cannot separate our present spiritual regeneration from cosmic regeneration because our present restoration […]

— Michael D. Williams
Jan 28, 2009

Make only Christ’s righteousness triumphant

Whatever comes in, when you go to God for acceptance, besides Christ, call it Antichrist; bid it be gone; make only Christ’s righteousness triumphant.

— Thomas Wilcox
Jan 27, 2009

The foundation of our faith

If God’s word of promise cannot be trusted to stand forever, then all our faith is in vain.

— John Piper
Jan 26, 2009

Rumor of the future

At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of the morning, […]

— C. S. Lewis
Jan 25, 2009

Glory

The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm […]

— C. S. Lewis
Jan 24, 2009

The dogma is the drama

It is the dogma that is the drama—not beautiful phrases, nor comforting sentiments, nor vague aspirations to loving-kindness and uplift, nor the promise of something […]

— Dorothy Sayers
Jan 23, 2009

Follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child

In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ’s hand, keeping your eye on […]

— Jonathan Edwards
Jan 22, 2009

Evil transformed

God did not abolish the fact of evil: He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion: He rose from the dead.

— Dorothy Sayers
Jan 21, 2009

The incarnation and the new creation

The ultimate reason there is a new heavens and a new earth is because the risen Christ will never lay down his human body but keep […]

— John Piper
Jan 20, 2009

Sharing in the life of the resurrected Christ

The relationship between the exalted Christ and the Spirit is the cornerstone of Paul’s teaching on the Christian life and the work of the Holy Spirit. The […]

— Richard B. Gaffin
Jan 19, 2009

God’s kingdom

Adam desired a greater authority than God had given, and inherited shame and doom. He would be God’s rival and thereby set himself against God, […]

— Edmund P. Clowney
Jan 18, 2009

The price that love pays

God’s love is his holiness reaching out to sinners; grace is but the price that his love pays to his holiness; the cross is but […]

— David F. Wells
Jan 17, 2009

Unbelieving fears

There is not any thing that, in our communion with him, the Lord is more troubled with us for, if I may say so, than […]

— John Owen
Jan 16, 2009

The sole anchor of our salvation

Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are […]

— John Calvin
Jan 15, 2009

Unbelief a great sin

Beloved friends, let us never look upon our own unbelief as an excusable infirmity, but let us always regard it as a sin, and as […]

— Charles Spurgeon
Jan 14, 2009

The dawn of the age to come

The present age is in the sunset of dissolution; the age to come is the dawn whose light bathes life, banishes its shadows, and illumines […]

— David F. Wells
Jan 13, 2009

When Christ is the treasure of suffering people

I don’t think Christ is glorified anywhere more than when suffering people rejoice in him as their treasure.

— John Piper
Jan 12, 2009

Our daily duty

Let faith look on Christ in the gospel as he is set forth dying and crucified for us. Look on him under the weight of […]

— John Owen
Jan 11, 2009

The grace of God argument

The gospel creates the only kind of grief over sin which is clean and which does not crush. It says: ‘Look at Jesus dying for you! […]

— Tim Keller
Jan 10, 2009

Convicted by mercy

Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends the will away […]

— Tim Keller
Jan 9, 2009

Satan utterly overthrown

Satan and his defeated legions, and the lost spirits of ungodly men, shall bite their lips with envy and rage, and tremble at the majesty […]

— Charles Spurgeon
Jan 8, 2009

Jesus glorified in weak believers

There shall be more wonder at the going to heaven of the weak believers than at the stronger ones. Mr. Greatheart, when he comes there, […]

— Charles Spurgeon
Jan 8, 2009

My daily resolve

Preaching the gospel to myself each day nourishes within me a holy brazenness to believe what God says, enjoy what He offers, and do what […]

— Milton Vincent
Jan 7, 2009

Nothing is neutral

The opposition between light and dark, life and death, wisdom and folly, health and sickness, obedience and disobedience manifests itself everywhere. Nothing is ‘neutral’ in […]

— Albert Wolters
Jan 6, 2009

Evil and the purposes of God

The mystery of iniquity is at work in the world during this interim time, and it is not always clear how its malignant work is […]

— David F. Wells
Jan 5, 2009

Recovering sinners

For just as sin, addiction, and misery typically go together, so do confession, healing, and the long process of redemption. We need redemption not just […]

— Cornelius Plantinga
Jan 4, 2009

Seeing the gospel

The gospel is not a secret truth given to some. Rather, the Holy Spirit removes the blindness of the fall. Thus faith is not a […]

— Michael D. Williams
Jan 3, 2009

The essence of Christianity

The essence of the Christian religion consists in this: that the creation of the Father, devastated by sin, is restored in the death of the […]

— Herman Bavinck
Jan 2, 2009

He lives at the right hand of God

That same Jesus who once died for sinners, still lives at the right hand of God, to carry on the work of salvation which He […]

— J. C. Ryle
Jan 1, 2009

Behold, I make all things new

There are children of God who need this text, ‘Behold, I make all things new,’ whose sigh is that they so soon grow dull and […]

— Charles Spurgeon