Archive for January 2009
Nothing to prove
— C. John Miller Jan 30, 2009You 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. […]
The true message of Jesus
— Tim Keller Jan 30, 2009Jesus’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 […]
Grace infinite and everlasting
— Horatius Bonar Jan 29, 2009We often feel as if grace had done its utmost when it has carried us safely through the desert, and set us down at the […]
The regeneration of all creation
— Michael D. Williams Jan 28, 2009Our renewal is tied to the eschatological renewal of the creation. We cannot separate our present spiritual regeneration from cosmic regeneration because our present restoration […]
Make only Christ’s righteousness triumphant
— Thomas Wilcox Jan 27, 2009Whatever comes in, when you go to God for acceptance, besides Christ, call it Antichrist; bid it be gone; make only Christ’s righteousness triumphant.
The foundation of our faith
— John Piper Jan 26, 2009If God’s word of promise cannot be trusted to stand forever, then all our faith is in vain.
Rumor of the future
— C. S. Lewis Jan 25, 2009At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of the morning, […]
Glory
— C. S. Lewis Jan 24, 2009The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm […]
The dogma is the drama
— Dorothy Sayers Jan 23, 2009It 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 […]
Follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child
— Jonathan Edwards Jan 22, 2009In 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 […]
Evil transformed
— Dorothy Sayers Jan 21, 2009God did not abolish the fact of evil: He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion: He rose from the dead.
The incarnation and the new creation
— John Piper Jan 20, 2009The 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 […]
Sharing in the life of the resurrected Christ
— Richard B. Gaffin Jan 19, 2009The 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 […]
God’s kingdom
— Edmund P. Clowney Jan 18, 2009Adam 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, […]
The price that love pays
— David F. Wells Jan 17, 2009God’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 […]
Unbelieving fears
— John Owen Jan 16, 2009There is not any thing that, in our communion with him, the Lord is more troubled with us for, if I may say so, than […]
The sole anchor of our salvation
— John Calvin Jan 15, 2009Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are […]
Unbelief a great sin
— Charles Spurgeon Jan 14, 2009Beloved friends, let us never look upon our own unbelief as an excusable infirmity, but let us always regard it as a sin, and as […]
The dawn of the age to come
— David F. Wells Jan 13, 2009The present age is in the sunset of dissolution; the age to come is the dawn whose light bathes life, banishes its shadows, and illumines […]
When Christ is the treasure of suffering people
— John Piper Jan 12, 2009I don’t think Christ is glorified anywhere more than when suffering people rejoice in him as their treasure.
Our daily duty
— John Owen Jan 11, 2009Let faith look on Christ in the gospel as he is set forth dying and crucified for us. Look on him under the weight of […]
The grace of God argument
— Tim Keller Jan 10, 2009The 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! […]
Convicted by mercy
— Tim Keller Jan 9, 2009Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends the will away […]
Satan utterly overthrown
— Charles Spurgeon Jan 8, 2009Satan and his defeated legions, and the lost spirits of ungodly men, shall bite their lips with envy and rage, and tremble at the majesty […]
Jesus glorified in weak believers
— Charles Spurgeon Jan 8, 2009There shall be more wonder at the going to heaven of the weak believers than at the stronger ones. Mr. Greatheart, when he comes there, […]
My daily resolve
— Milton Vincent Jan 7, 2009Preaching the gospel to myself each day nourishes within me a holy brazenness to believe what God says, enjoy what He offers, and do what […]
Nothing is neutral
— Albert Wolters Jan 6, 2009The opposition between light and dark, life and death, wisdom and folly, health and sickness, obedience and disobedience manifests itself everywhere. Nothing is ‘neutral’ in […]
Evil and the purposes of God
— David F. Wells Jan 5, 2009The mystery of iniquity is at work in the world during this interim time, and it is not always clear how its malignant work is […]
Recovering sinners
— Cornelius Plantinga Jan 4, 2009For just as sin, addiction, and misery typically go together, so do confession, healing, and the long process of redemption. We need redemption not just […]
Seeing the gospel
— Michael D. Williams Jan 3, 2009The gospel is not a secret truth given to some. Rather, the Holy Spirit removes the blindness of the fall. Thus faith is not a […]
The essence of Christianity
— Herman Bavinck Jan 2, 2009The essence of the Christian religion consists in this: that the creation of the Father, devastated by sin, is restored in the death of the […]
He lives at the right hand of God
— J. C. Ryle Jan 1, 2009That same Jesus who once died for sinners, still lives at the right hand of God, to carry on the work of salvation which He […]
Behold, I make all things new
— Charles SpurgeonThere are children of God who need this text, ‘Behold, I make all things new,’ whose sigh is that they so soon grow dull and […]
