Salvation is often accomplished by a lengthened process. I have heard that when builders wanted to bridge a great chasm, they shot across the river […]

Your Redeemer traverses the rugged path of suffering, along which He went with heaving heart and heavy footsteps, that He might pave a royal road […]

I am His by purchase and I am His by conquest; I am His by donation and I am His by election; I am His […]

The Holy Spirit is no mere mechanical agent in the great work of a sinner’s deliverance, and of the Church’s up building, obediently doing the […]

The crucified Christ has irresistible attractions. When He stoops into the utmost suffering and scorn, even the brutal must relent. A living Savior men may […]

How, then, can we behold the glory of Christ? We need, firstly, a spiritual understanding of his glory as revealed in Scripture. Secondly, we need […]

At the heart of revival is Christ made known to repenting sinners.

We stand as sinners together at the cross needing to be cleansed. When true love shines, we find it easy to share with and trust […]

Jesus does not say, ‘Come to me, all you who have learned how to concentrate in prayer, whose minds no longer wander, and I will […]

Saving belief is not mere mental assent, but a believing in — a living in — the knowledge of that news. It is a leaning […]

This is the paradox of grace. He who insists he is right will be pronounced wrong, while he who admits he is wrong will be […]

According to the Christian revelation, God’s own great love propitiated his own holy wrath through the gift of his own dear Son, who took our […]

True spirituality is not a superhuman religiosity; it is simply true humanity released from bondage to sin and renewed by the Holy Spirit. This is […]

Obedience must be in and through Christ. ‘He hath made us accepted in the beloved’ (Eph. 1:6). Not our obedience, but Christ’s merits procure acceptance. […]

Christ is the glory of God. His blood-soaked cross is the blazing center of that glory. By it He bought for us every blessing–temporal and […]

At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness. The […]

You cannot open the pages of the New testament without realizing that one of the things that makes it so ‘new’, in every way, is […]

Whom God calls, according to His purpose, to the communion of His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and regenerates by the Holy Spirit, He delivers […]

The only way to come to God is by taking off any spiritual mask. The real you has to meet the real God. He is […]

One of the most basic things that the gospel does is change prayer from mere petition to fellowship and the praise of his glory. Galatians 4:6–7 […]

What happens in the new birth is the creation of life in union with Christ. And part of how God does that is by the […]

All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out of the changes that understanding creates in your heart. Faith […]

Truth will readily be exchanged for error when no more sweetness and joy is to be found in it than is to be found in […]

The key difference between a Pharisee and a believer in Jesus is inner heart motivation. Pharisees are being good but out of a fearful need […]

The redeemed have all their objective good in God. God himself is the great good which they are brought to the possession and enjoyment of […]

The voice that spells forgiveness will say: ‘You may go: you have been let off the penalty which your sin deserves.’ But the verdict which […]

Do not worry about what you feel. The truth about you is glorious. If you are in Christ, rise to it ‘o’er sin and care. […]

There is nothing that is so calculated to promote holiness as the realization that we are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, that […]

Prayer to the Father is not a limitation of our prayer. It does not exclude Christ, but confesses the purpose for which he gave his […]

The wonder of the high priestly ministry of Christ lies not just in where he is, but in who he is. Where he is we […]

We are not called to build the kingdom of glory, but to carry a cross in the kingdom of grace. To forget the cause of […]