Christ’s salvation is of such a kind that it expresses the ultimate reality of guilt and exposes it in all its stark actuality. It exposes […]

The true looking of faith, I say, is placing Christ before one’s eyes and beholding in Him the heart of God poured out in love. […]

Why can we have the tree of life? Because Jesus Christ climbed the cross, the tree of death. And because Jesus climbed the tree of […]

The keys of death were hung on the inside of Christ’s tomb. From the outside, Christ could do many wonderful works, including raising a twelve-year-old […]

There is no greater cleavage between faith and unbelief than in their respective attitudes to the cross. Where faith sees glory, unbelief sees only disgrace. […]

No sin can be crucified either in heart or life, unless it first be pardoned in conscience, because there will be want of faith to […]

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God […]

The whole life of Christ was a continuall Passion; others die Martyrs, but Christ was born a Martyr… His birth and his death were but […]

If, then, I believe on Jesus Christ’s name — that is, simply from my heart trust myself with the crucified, but now exalted, Redeemer, I […]

Have you heard God’s blessing in your inmost being? Are the words, ‘You are my beloved child, in whom I delight’ an endless source of […]

Jesus’ announcement of the gospel constitutes a resounding ‘yes’ to his good creation and at the same time a decisive ‘no’ to the sin that […]

We will never understand what it is to be human and will never be fully human until we take seriously our purpose in being created […]

In the Christian theology of history, the death of Christ is the central point of history; here all the roads of the past converge; hence […]

Glorification is the scriptural name for God’s completion of what he began when he regenerated us, namely, our moral and spiritual reconstruction so as to […]

When God planned the great work of saving sinners, he provided two gifts. He gave his Son and he gave his Spirit. In fact each […]

Love is not the upward ascent of our souls that sublimates us into union with the deity. Rather, love is the descent of God’s royal […]

O that I might join the angels’ chorus, Worshipping the One who humbly came to save! He fulfilled God’s loving plan to free us, Banishing […]

An historical gospel that is not personal and powerful is merely antiquarian; a theological gospel that is not received by faith and found to be […]

Come, flick’ring hope, and carry fire; From this my story and desire, Ignite your smold’ring wick, and make Your candle blaze. And may Christ take […]

And now, O Christ, let there be light So we can see the way aright Between two dismal forms of death, And with that light, […]

What challenges Satan or conscience can make against the believer—hear an answer; I was condemned, I was judged, I was crucified for sin, when my […]

The heart of most religions is good advice, good techniques, good programs, good ideas, and good support systems. These drive us deeper into ourselves, to […]

When we look at Jesus Christ, we realize that there is a twofold strangeness about him. There is, first, the strangeness of his deity, He […]

What hope of glory, of godliness, do we have? Do we have hope that one day, if we just try hard enough and make a […]

Some think of the gospel as so slender it does nothing more than get us into the kingdom. After that the real work of transformation […]

The living God, who revealed himself both at Mount Sinai and on the Cross, is the only Lord who, if you find him, can truly […]

If we are deeply moved by the sight of his love for us, it detaches our hearts from other would-be saviors. We stop trying to […]

Neither let your own accusing conscience, nor Satan the accuser of the brethren, hinder you any longer from Christ. For what though they should accuse […]

To the extent that we remains pilgrims in this life, the gospel will remain strange even to us. Until the day we die, we will […]

Let us take comfort in the thought that the Lord Jesus does not cast off His believing people because of failures and imperfections. He knows […]

In fear-based repentance, we don’t learn to hate the sin for itself, and it doesn’t lose its attractive power. We learn only to refrain from […]