There are thousands of reasons we want to be better people, but none of them means anything except his one: the love of Christ.

Until men feel that they owe everything to God, that they are cherished by his paternal care, and that he is the author of all […]

There is no inconsistency or incoherence in the teaching of the New Testament about, on the one hand, the offer of Christ in the gospel, […]

Christians are called to a dual fidelity — fidelity to the core content of the gospel accompanied by fidelity to the primary context of the […]

Growing in the gospel means seeing more of God’s holiness and more of my sin. And because of what Jesus has done for us on […]

Jesus Christ is not merely the means of our rescue from damnation; he is the goal of our salvation. If he is not satisfying to […]

One day as I was passing into the field, this sentence fell upon my soul: ‘Thy righteousness is in heaven.’ And with the eyes of […]

But [In the Bible] we read not of any having been blamed for drinking too much of the fountain of living water; on the contrary, […]

Why are you called a Christian? Because I am a member of Christ by faith and thus share in His anointing, so that I may […]

Christ died for his people, and we are saved when by faith we become part of the people for whom Christ died. The story of […]

By becoming a Christian, I belong to God and I belong to my brothers and sisters. It is not that I belong to God and […]

Adam belongs to the world that is, Christ to the world to come. Once Jesus burst from the tomb, the age to come dawned, and […]

We are only poor for this reason, that we do not know our riches in Christ.

The victory lies not with us, but with Christ, who has taken on him both to conquer for us and to conquer in us. The […]

How are you righteous before God? Only by true faith in Jesus Christ. Although my conscience accuses me that I have grievously sinned against all […]

What do you mean by the providence of God? The almighty and everywhere present power of God; whereby, as it were by his hand, he upholds […]

God’s triumph through Christ over sin is so glorious that we are driven to conclude that apart from sin, such incredible love and mercy in […]

Adam, the representative man, prepares us for Christ. Christ is more than a substitute for Adam, a stand-in, as it were, to succeed where Adam […]

The resurrection and exaltation of Christ accomplish a new unity between heaven and earth, for Christ now has a heavenly body (1 Cor. 15:42ff), a […]

The Lord reveal himself more and more to us in the face of his Son Jesus Christ and magnify the power of his grace in […]

Whence is it that, when assaulted with temptation and compassed with troubles, we have stood firm, but from a secret strength upholding us? To make […]

Ah! believer, it is safer always for you to be led of the Spirit into gospel liberty than to wear legal fetters. Judge yourself at […]

Even when we pray for the blessing of God’s own glory to rest upon us, we find the fulfillment not by thinking about ourselves but […]

The purpose of creation, redemption, and consummation are seen holistically as God’s purpose to glorify Christ by fulfilling the Adamic creation mandate, the universal Noahic […]

The Lord held to this orderly plan in administering the covenant of his mercy: as the day of full revelation approached with the passing of […]

The gospel word and the gospel community are closely connected. The word creates and nourishes the community, while the community proclaims and embodies the word.

The gospel does not say, ‘There is a Saviour, if you wish to be saved’; but, ‘Sir, you have no right to go to hell […]

Faith, if it is to be sure and steadfast, must lay hold upon nothing else but Christ alone, and in the conflict and terrors of […]

Humility agrees and is glad that everything we have is a free gift of God, and that this severs the root of boasting in our […]

You have limited righteousness. Does that statement bother you? Actually, it needs to be strengthened. You and I have no independent righteousness at all! All […]