It doesn’t matter how complicated, how desperate, perhaps even hopeless your life has become. No matter how overwhelmed you may feel by your problems, if […]

God is never doing just one thing in what he does with us. He is always doing thousands of things that we cannot see. He […]

The longer I live the less optimistic I am that I will end without sin and the more grateful I become for the blood of […]

Be content to be nothing, for that is what you are. When your own emptiness is painfully forced upon your consciousness, chide yourself that you […]

Christian exultation in God begins with the shamefaced recognition that we have no claim on him at all, continues with wondering worship that while we […]

Justified believers enjoy a blessing far greater than a periodic approach to God or an occasional audience with the king. We are privileged to live […]

Forgiven souls are humble. They cannot forget that they owe all they have and hope for to free grace, and this keeps them lowly. They […]

In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me? (Psalm 56:4) Faith brings […]

When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. (Psalm 56:3) The condition of the psalmist’s mind was complex—he feared, but that fear did […]

All the doctrines of the Gospel are practical principles. The word of God was not written, the Son of God was not incarnate, the Spirit […]

The gospel is the wisdom of God because it doesn’t praise our intellects or advertise our strengths. It causes us to fall on our knees […]

There are good reasons for worshiping in one act of adoration the three in their distinct persons and relations with one another. A living relationship […]

The atoning death of Christ, and that alone, has presented sinners as righteous in God’s sight; the Lord Jesus has paid the full penalty of […]

Make a point, whenever you receive a promise from God, to get all you can out of it. If you carry out that rule, it […]

To believe in the possibility of ‘falling from grace’ is to believe in the possible defeat of God by the devil. That is unthinkable and […]

Let it be counted folly, or phrensy, or fury, or whatsoever. It is our wisdom and our comfort; we care for no knowledge in the […]

Are you relying on your own righteousness? Or on ‘the righteousness of God which is by faith in Jesus Christ’? Do you know the grounds […]

We are always looking inwards and pitying ourselves and being sorry for ourselves, and looking for something to help us. Get rid of that outlook, […]

Christ wins our salvation through losing, achieves power through weakness and service, comes to wealth via giving all away. And those who receive his salvation […]

The glorified, resurrected body and soul of our Lord is the firstfruits of the New Creation (1 Cor. 15:20ff) which He now labors through His […]

Everything that is coming to us from God comes through Christ Jesus. Christ Jesus has won our pardon; he has reconciled us to God; he […]

I was scrubbing the kitchen floor depressed about the lack of progress in the lives of people I was discipling. As I continued to scrub, […]

The gospel, God’s free gift of grace in Jesus, only works when we realize we don’t have it all together. The same is true for […]

Christ’s atoning death ratified the inauguration of the new covenant, in which access to God under all circumstances is guaranteed by Christ’s one sacrifice that […]

How do we receive those benefits which the Father bestowed on his only-begotten Son — not for Christ’s own private use, but that he might […]

Love begets a likeness between the mind loving and the object beloved. A mind filled with the love of Christ as crucified will be changed […]

Give to the wind your fear Hope and be undismayed God hears your sighs and counts your tears God will lift up, God will lift […]

In every other religion the indicative flows from the imperative. Which means, ‘because I do, therefore I am… because I do this, therefore I’m a […]

Hark! From the cross a gracious voice, Salutes my ravished ears; Rejoice, thou ransomed souls, rejoice! And dry those falling tears! Amazed, I turn, grown […]

The benefits of redemption shall far outweigh the evils of the fall.

Since our salvation is received in union with Christ, what is his by nature is ours by grace. Thus, in his self-offering to the Father, […]

Revival is Jesus bringing the fulness of His life into the emptiness of ours. For every lack in us there is a corresponding grace in […]

It is always the Holy Spirit’s work to turn our eyes away from self to Jesus; but Satan’s work is just the opposite of this, […]