Archive for November 2009

Nov 30, 2009

What Binds Us Together

What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort. […]

— D. A. Carson
Nov 29, 2009

Better News the Gospel Brings

To run and work the law commands, Yet gives me neither feet nor hands; But better news the gospel brings: It bids me fly and […]

— John Bunyan
Nov 28, 2009

The Faith that is Never Alone

The faith by which sinners are justified, as it unites them to Christ and so secures for them all the benefits of salvation that are […]

— Richard B. Gaffin
Nov 27, 2009

This is perfect righteousness

This is perfect righteousness, to hear nothing, to know nothing, to do nothing of the law of works; but only to know and believe that […]

— Edward Fisher
Nov 26, 2009

An imperfect preview

The gospel creates the kind of community that is even now an imperfect preview of the kingdom’s marriage feast that awaits us. The church originates, […]

— Michael Horton
Nov 25, 2009

He that believes

He that believes in the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved, be his sins never so many. But he that does not believe in the […]

— Thomas Brooks
Nov 24, 2009

The only thing that makes you differ

Christian! the only thing that makes you differ from the vilest being that pollutes the earth, or from the darkest fiend that gnaws his chains […]

— Octavius Winslow
Nov 23, 2009

Mission and the Overflow of Grace

Grasping the external propulsion of God’s grace is crucial to our understanding of mission. It means that mission is not a duty (something we ‘should do’) […]

— Bob Thune and Will Walker
Nov 22, 2009

Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands

The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to […]

— Paul David Tripp
Nov 21, 2009

Fill your affections with the cross of Christ

When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable thing. The baits […]

— John Owen
Nov 20, 2009

Sin and the resolve of God

To speak of sin by itself, to speak of it apart from the realities of creation and grace, is to forget the resolve of God. […]

— Cornelius Plantinga
Nov 19, 2009

The gospel in three words

Were I asked to focus the New Testament message in three words, my proposal would be adoption through propitiation, and I do not expect ever […]

— J. I. Packer
Nov 18, 2009

Go and tell Jesus

There is nothing that you may not in the confidence of love, and in the simplicity of faith, tell Jesus—no temporal need—no spiritual sorrow. “Casting […]

— Octavius Winslow
Nov 17, 2009

We get the grace, He gets the glory

One thing is past all question; we shall bring our Lord most glory if we get from Him much grace.

— Charles Spurgeon
Nov 16, 2009

Only and always for Christ’s sake

There is nothing in us or done by us, at any stage of our earthly development, because of which we are acceptable to God. We […]

— B. B. Warfield
Nov 15, 2009

Every Moment of Every Day

It’s no wonder that self-help books top the charts in Christian publishing and that counseling offices are overwhelmed. Our pride and our neglect of the […]

— Elyse Fitzpatrick and Dennis Johnson
Nov 14, 2009

Our vileness and Christ’s merits

Whoever is afraid to see sin’s utmost vileness, and to confess the desperate wickedness of his own heart, suspects the merits of Christ.

— Thomas Wilcox
Nov 13, 2009

How to fire the arrows of prayer

When the arrow of a saint’s prayer is put into the bow of Christ’s intercession it pierces the throne of grace.

— Thomas Watson
Nov 12, 2009

The living guide to Jesus

The Holy Spirit is the living guide to Jesus. It is He who says, with power, ‘Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin […]

— Ruth Bryan
Nov 10, 2009

Rising from the dust

When a believer has fallen into a low, sad state of feeling, he often tries to lift himself out of it by chastening himself with […]

— Charles Spurgeon
Nov 9, 2009

Our only hope and fear

The tares of ruin grow and ripen. The sand runs low within the glass. Our days are numbered. ‘Repent or perish,’ says the Christ. The […]

— Geoffrey T. Bull
Nov 8, 2009

The Office, the Bloodshed, and the Life

Consider well of the office, the bloodshed, and the holy life of Christ — His office is to expiate sin, and to destroy it. His […]

— Richard Baxter
Nov 7, 2009

The Gospel and Christian Experience

Spiritual experience that does not arise from God’s word is not Christian experience.… Not all that passes for Christian experience is genuine. An authentic experience […]

— Tim Chester and Steve Timmis
Nov 6, 2009

A love that rises and never sets

If once God’s electing love rises upon the soul, it never sets.

— Thomas Watson
Nov 5, 2009

We glorify God by working out our own salvation

We glorify God by working out our own salvation. God has twisted together his glory and our good. What an encouragement is this to the […]

— Thomas Watson
Nov 4, 2009

Mercy triumphs over Judgement

Mercy triumphs over Judgment’ Mankind’s sentence now appealed; From the holy God offended, Righteousness has been revealed! Glory to the Justifier! Praise His great and […]

— Kevin Hartnett
Nov 3, 2009

O magnify the Lamb

O magnify the Lamb Who bravely paid the price, And walked the path alone To brutal sacrifice. His work commands the praise Of all whose […]

— Kevin Hartnett
Nov 2, 2009

Ready for the Altar

It was with thanks He broke the bread, though sold with silver. The Son of Man is glorified, He says, and God is glorified in […]

— Geoffrey T. Bull
Nov 1, 2009

The Necessity and Reality of Christ

We never feel Christ to be a reality until we feel him to be a necessity.

— Austin Phelps