Archive for March 2010
His name put upon us
— Mar 30, 2010All those that are justified, God vouchsafes, in and for His only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the grace of adoption, by which […]
Christ’s heart
— Octavius Winslow Mar 29, 2010Christ’s heart is a human heart, a sinless heart, a tender heart; a heart once the home of sorrow, once stricken with grief; once an […]
The cross and forgiveness
— Tim Keller Mar 28, 2010On the Cross we see God doing at the cosmic level what we all have to do when we forgive. There God absorbed the punishment […]
A fully accomplished salvation
— Tim Keller Mar 27, 2010Through the person and work of Jesus Christ, God fully accomplishes salvation for us, rescuing us from judgment for sin into fellowship with him, and then restores […]
Seeing what Jesus has done
— Tim Keller Mar 26, 2010How can we break our heart’s fixation on doing ‘some great thing’ in order to heal ourselves of our sense of inadequacy, in order to […]
All good things secured by Christ on the cross
— D. A. Carson Mar 25, 2010Everything that we know and appreciate and praise God for in all Christian experience both in this life and in the life to come springs […]
Without the gospel everything is useless and vain
— John Calvin Mar 24, 2010Without the gospel everything is useless and vain; without the gospel we are not Christians; without the gospel all riches is poverty, all wisdom folly […]
What is grace?
— Sinclair Ferguson Mar 23, 2010Grace is not a ‘thing’. It is not a substance that can be measured or a commodity to be distributed. It is the ‘grace of […]
Plead your adoption
— Charles Spurgeon Mar 22, 2010You will find it a stronghold in the day of trial to plead your adoption. You have no rights as a subject, you have forfeited […]
The story of God
— Michael R. Emlet Mar 20, 2010If you read the Bible from cover to cover you realize that it narrates (proclaims!) a true and cohesive story: the good news that through Jesus […]
Free sons and daughters
— John Stott Mar 19, 2010The Christian life is the life of sons and daughters; it is not the life of slaves. It is freedom, not bondage. Of course, we are […]
A firm and indissoluble union
— Thomas Boston Mar 18, 2010The union between Christ and his mystical members is firm and indissoluble. Were it so that the believer only apprehended Christ—but Christ not apprehended him, […]
Children of God through union with Christ
— Thomas Boston Mar 17, 2010Believers, being united to Christ, become children of God, and members of the family of heaven. By their union with him, who is the Son […]
Go to Christ immediately
— Robert Murray M’Cheyne Mar 15, 2010I feel when I have sinned an immediate reluctance to go to Christ. I am ashamed to go. I feel as if it would not […]
He surrendered himself
— Arturo Azurdia Mar 14, 2010Had the Son of God been forced into this world — driven to His death on the cross — our amazement at His love would […]
Front and centre
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones Mar 12, 2010The preaching of the cross, the preaching of the death of the Lord Jesus Christ on that cross, is the very heart and center of […]
Our sins sink as lead in the mighty waters of the Redeemer’s blood
— Thomas Boston Mar 11, 2010God the Father takes the pen, dips it in the blood of his Son, crosses off the sinner’s accounts, and blots them out of his […]
Once in Christ, ever in him
— Thomas Boston Mar 10, 2010Once in Christ, ever in him. Having taken up his habitation in the heart, he never leaves. None can untie this happy knot. Who will dissolve […]
God is near when you pray
— Octavius Winslow Mar 9, 2010God is near at hand when you do approach Him in prayer. Oh, comforting truth! A God at hand to hear the softest breath of […]
The school of Christ
— Octavius Winslow Mar 8, 2010It is then, we say, in the successive stages of his experience, that the believer sees more distinctly, and adores more profoundly, and grasps more […]
The greatest gift
— William Hendrickson Mar 7, 2010God’s grace is his active favor bestowing the greatest gift upon those who have deserved the greatest punishment.
God’s invincible love
— John Piper Mar 6, 2010We are God’s elect. Before the foundation of the world, God chose us in Christ. You can hear how precious this is to Paul with […]
The second man
— Sinclair Ferguson Mar 5, 2010Jesus Christ comes into the world and takes on our flesh as the second man through whom God would deal with entire groups of men […]
You will rise up in the end
— Ben Shive Mar 4, 2010Every stone that makes you stumble and cuts you when you fall Every serpent here that strikes your heel to curse you when you crawl […]
The restoration of the banished
— Horatius Bonar Mar 3, 2010He spares not His Son, but sends Him in quest of the exiles. He comes into the land of banishment, lies in an exile’s cradle, […]
Remember the blood of Christ
— J. C. Ryle Mar 2, 2010I charge you never to give up the old doctrine of the blood of Christ, the complete satisfaction which that atoning blood made for sin, […]
What the gospel is saying
— Graeme Goldsworthy Mar 1, 2010The gospel is saying that, what man cannot do in order to be accepted with God, this God Himself has done for us in the […]
One great and predominant affection
— Thomas ChalmersIt is when released from the spirit of bondage with which love cannot dwell, and when admitted into the number of God’s children through the faith that […]

