Forgiveness invites us to return to God, obliges us to return to God inclines us to return to God, and encourages us to live in […]

We want the fact of substitution to strike us, and then the cross will grow sublimely great. In vision I behold it! Its two arms […]

We are now capable of a joy which unfallen spirits could not have known: the bliss of pardoned sin, the heaven of deep conscious obligation […]

To preach the Gospel of the unconditional grace of God in that unconditional way is to set before people the astonishingly good news of what […]

From beginning to end what Jesus Christ has done for you he has done not only as God but as man. He has acted in […]

We believe that God, who is perfectly merciful and just, sent His Son to assume that nature in which the disobedience was committed, to make […]

Identity is a complex set of layers, for we are many things. Our occupation, ethnic identity, etc., are part of who we are. But we […]

God’s grace is the driving force of all change. God’s grace has both an inward and an outward movement that mirror each other. Internally, the […]

Genuine Christian praise is not primary a vehicle for the expression of spiritual aspirations and experiences, so much as a celebration of God’s mighty acts […]

To be bursting with thanksgiving is a true witness of the Spirit within us. For the voice of thanksgiving speaks without ceasing of the goodness […]

The nearest place to the gate of heaven is the throne of the heavenly grace. Much alone, and you will have much assurance; little alone […]

Spiritual life and faith in Jesus come into being together. The new life makes the faith possible, and since spiritual life always awakens faith and […]

Judge not Christ’s love by providences, but by promises (Psa 73; Heb 11:1; Eccl 9).

No selfishness, no hatred, No spitefulness was there. No unbelief, no cursing, No pity from despair. One sinful thought; one failure, And Love would not […]

Christianity is more than a hope, however glorious. It is, even now, ‘Christ in you’! Full salvation belongs to the last day, but a real […]

Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.

True repentance has a distinct reference to the Saviour. When we repent of sin, we must have one eye upon sin and another upon the […]

The Holy Spirit consoles, but Christ is the consolation. If we may use the figure, the Holy Spirit is the Physician, but Jesus is the […]

Christ turned his back, voluntarily, deliberately, and decisively, upon all that belonged to personal glory, and all that conduced to personal gain. He recognized no […]

We are unable to do what the law commands us to do, but Jesus did it for us. And because he lives in us by […]

We are constantly assured that the churches are empty because preachers insist too much upon doctrine — ‘dull dogma,’ as people call it. The fact […]

In every temptation let us look up to a crucified Christ, who is fitted and qualified to support tempted souls. Oh my soul, whenever you […]

Very much of prayer is to be highly commended for its reverence, but it has in it a lack of childlike confidence. I can admire […]

What is your only comfort in life and death? That I am not my own, but belong with body and soul, both in life and in […]

At the root of the human condition is a struggle for righteousness and identity. We long for a sense of acceptance, approval, security, and significance […]

Here’s a gospel truth that is just astounding and meant to comfort your guilty, burdened soul: because Jesus Christ perfectly obeyed every facet of the […]

If God were not just, there would be no demand for his Son to suffer and die. And if God were not loving, there would […]

The gospel gives you psychological freedom to handle the wrong things that you will do. You won’t have to deny, spin, or repress the truth […]

The essence of the Christian religion consists in this, that the creation of the Father, devastated by sin, is restored in the death of the […]