The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.

The cosmic extent of salvation is seen as the Second Adam offers up to the Father a created order in which He has subdued every […]

When Jesus Christ rose from the dead that first Easter Sunday, a new epoch in redemptive history dawned. The empty tomb was the first concrete […]

Remember this—all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his […]

The Christian’s present taste of reality in fellowship with God and his people is but an anticipation of the substantial realities which are reserved for […]

Let us stand still, and admire and wonder at the love of Jesus Christ to poor sinners; that Christ should rather die for us, than […]

The gospel of Christ’s painful death on our behalf has a way of breaking our pride and our sense of rightful demands and our frustration […]

The Christian life should be a state of thankful discontentment or joyful dissatisfaction! We live every day thankful for the amazing grace that fundamentally changes […]

Divine Love is Gift-love. The Father gives all He is and has to the Son. The Son gives Himself back to the Father, and gives […]

On the cross the wrath and love of God are both vindicated, they are both demonstrated, they are both expressed completely, and they both shine […]

The point I am making is quite offensive to us today. It is that God hides himself from us, that he cannot be had on […]

How amazing that God in Christ should do all this; that the Most High, the Most Holy should be the All Loving too; that the […]

He came to free a people, For ‘Jesus’ was His name; To bear the sins of many, The Lord of Love, He came. He numbered […]

God requires two things of us: punishment for our sins and perfection in our lives. Our sins must be punished, and our lives must be […]

He ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. Christ is described as being seated. This implies two things. […]

All of our personal problems and church problems come because we don’t come continually back to the gospel to work it in and live it out.

The gospel shows us that God is far more holy and absolute than the moralists’ god, because he could not be satisfied by our moral […]

We gather as the church to proclaim the truth. We gather to declare—to ourselves, to each other, and to God—what we know to be eternal […]

What thing is that that maketh our prayer acceptable to God? Is it our babbling? No, no; it is not our babbling, nor our long […]

Why am I so blessed? I am blessed because, in the most painful moment in human history, Jesus willingly subjected himself to the rejection of […]

The more I see of Jesus, the more He opens to me His loving heart, the deeper is my sorrow for sin. I lie down in the […]

“First comes the actual exercise of the mind, fixing thoughts and meditations upon spiritual truths. Next comes the inclination of all the affections toward these […]

It is an item of faith that we are children of God; there is plenty of evidence in us against it. The faith that surmounts […]

Cheap grace is the enemy of the church. It means forgiveness of sins proclaimed as a general truth. An intellectual assent to that idea is […]

That Christ should love man when he was most unlovely, that man’s extreme misery should but inflame Christ’s love and mercy, this melts the believing […]

If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God’s child, and […]

The cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is wrong. Jesus’ death […]

If He had faltered even once, In flames of hell would men abide. Then ponder Christ, and praise at length The strength of Him there […]

The gospel is Good News concerning the Kingdom, and the Kingdom is God’s rule over the totality of life. Every human need therefore can be […]

Since His resurrection, Jesus has kept His physical body, in a glorified form. Jesus did not have a body before He came to earth; He […]

Our good King, the Lord Jesus, the ruler of all creation, has indeed returned and come to restore his good intentions for creation. He has […]