The law requires works of human achievement; the gospel requires faith in Christ’s achievement. The law makes demands and bids us obey; the gospel brings […]

In summary, the Old Testament should be seen as preparation for and anticipation of the King’s coming. The New Testament should be seen as the […]

The true Scriptural source of consolation, in the face of all that troubles us, is to keep steadily before our eyes the second coming of […]

Those who are truly religious experience what sort of punishments are shame, confusion, groaning, displeasure with self, and other emotions that arise out of a […]

It is no good giving me a play like Hamlet or King Lear, and telling me to write a play like that. Shakespeare could do […]

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

When I say that God is the Gospel I mean that the highest, best, final, decisive good of the gospel, without which no other gifts […]

The Father cannot resist fellowship with His own dear children when they embrace Christ in all His offices as prophet, priest, and king.

In order for the Christian gospel to be good news it must provide an all-satisfying and eternal gift that undeserving sinners can receive and enjoy. […]

The cross is the place of exhausted penalty and magnified law. That which covers the sinner entirely and shields him from wrath was finished there. […]

The Holy Spirit is no mere mechanical agent in the great work of a sinner’s deliverance. ‘I delight to do Your will’ is as true […]

Everything that a man leans upon but God—will be a dart which will certainly pierce his heart through and through. He who leans only upon Christ—lives […]

When we are trusting Christ most authentically, we are not thinking about trusting, but about Christ. When we step out of the moment to examine […]

The gospel is the story of God covering his naked enemies, bringing them to the wedding feast, and then marrying them rather than crushing them.

Jesus Christ is the God who, in his holy love, judges humanity but who draws near in so doing, for he will not hold himself […]

In order to grow in Christlikeness, we’ve got to intentionally apply the gospel to everything we are and everything we long to do. We’re not […]

The Christian has the assurance which no heir in temporal things can ever have. He knows with absolute certainty that the inheritance will not merely […]

Christ, as the first fruits, arises, and that in the name and stead of all believers; and so they rise in him and with him; […]

We are the first ray of light breaking through into the darkness of a disordered and fractured universe. We are the first sign of a […]

Our whole life as Christians is a process of sailing confidently into the open seas, dying down in exhaustion, and having our sails filled again […]

All our obedience, every resolve to do good, and every work of faith is ‘by his power’ and so that the Lord Jesus would be […]

The difference between the law and gospel does not at all consist in this, that the one requires perfect doing, the other only sincere doing, […]

In Jesus Christ meet infinite highness and infinite condescension; infinite justice and infinite grace; infinite glory and lowest humility; infinite majesty and transcendent meekness; deepest […]

If Satan take you by the throat, and by violence draw you before God’s judgment-seat, then call to your husband, Christ, and say, ‘Lord, I […]

Jesus is the divine curse-remover and creation-renewer. Christ’s substitutionary death on the cross broke the curse of sin and death brought on by Adam’s cosmic […]

The gospel teaches that what could not be found in us and was to be sought in another, could be found nowhere else than in […]

It will always give a Christian the greatest calm, quiet, ease, and peace, to think of the perfect righteousness of Christ. How often are the […]

The union and communion between angels and men, the order of the whole family in heaven and earth, the communication of life, grace, power, mercy […]