Archive for March 2010

Mar 31, 2010

His name put upon us

All those that are justified, God vouchsafes, in and for His only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the grace of adoption, by which […]

Mar 30, 2010

Christ’s heart

Christ’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 […]

— Octavius Winslow
Mar 29, 2010

The cross and forgiveness

On the Cross we see God doing at the cosmic level what we all have to do when we forgive. There God absorbed the punishment […]

— Tim Keller
Mar 28, 2010

A fully accomplished salvation

Through 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 […]

— Tim Keller
Mar 27, 2010

Seeing what Jesus has done

How 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 […]

— Tim Keller
Mar 26, 2010

All good things secured by Christ on the cross

Everything that we know and appreciate and praise God for in all Christian experience both in this life and in the life to come springs […]

— D. A. Carson
Mar 25, 2010

Without the gospel everything is useless and vain

Without the gospel everything is useless and vain; without the gospel we are not Christians; without the gospel all riches is poverty, all wisdom folly […]

— John Calvin
Mar 24, 2010

What is grace?

Grace is not a ‘thing’. It is not a substance that can be measured or a commodity to be distributed. It is the ‘grace of […]

— Sinclair Ferguson
Mar 23, 2010

Plead your adoption

You will find it a stronghold in the day of trial to plead your adoption. You have no rights as a subject, you have forfeited […]

— Charles Spurgeon
Mar 22, 2010

The story of God

If 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 […]

— Michael R. Emlet
Mar 20, 2010

Free sons and daughters

The 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 […]

— John Stott
Mar 19, 2010

A firm and indissoluble union

The 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, […]

— Thomas Boston
Mar 18, 2010

Children of God through union with Christ

Believers, being united to Christ, become children of God, and members of the family of heaven. By their union with him, who is the Son […]

— Thomas Boston
Mar 17, 2010

Go to Christ immediately

I feel when I have sinned an immediate reluctance to go to Christ. I am ashamed to go. I feel as if it would not […]

— Robert Murray M’Cheyne
Mar 15, 2010

He surrendered himself

Had the Son of God been forced into this world — driven to His death on the cross — our amazement at His love would […]

— Arturo Azurdia
Mar 14, 2010

Front and centre

The preaching of the cross, the preaching of the death of the Lord Jesus Christ on that cross, is the very heart and center of […]

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Mar 12, 2010

Our sins sink as lead in the mighty waters of the Redeemer’s blood

God 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 […]

— Thomas Boston
Mar 11, 2010

Once in Christ, ever in him

Once 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 […]

— Thomas Boston
Mar 10, 2010

God is near when you pray

God is near at hand when you do approach Him in prayer. Oh, comforting truth! A God at hand to hear the softest breath of […]

— Octavius Winslow
Mar 9, 2010

The school of Christ

It is then, we say, in the successive stages of his experience, that the believer sees more distinctly, and adores more profoundly, and grasps more […]

— Octavius Winslow
Mar 8, 2010

The greatest gift

God’s grace is his active favor bestowing the greatest gift upon those who have deserved the greatest punishment.

— William Hendrickson
Mar 7, 2010

God’s invincible love

We 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 […]

— John Piper
Mar 6, 2010

The second man

Jesus Christ comes into the world and takes on our flesh as the second man through whom God would deal with entire groups of men […]

— Sinclair Ferguson
Mar 5, 2010

You will rise up in the end

Every stone that makes you stumble and cuts you when you fall Every serpent here that strikes your heel to curse you when you crawl […]

— Ben Shive
Mar 4, 2010

The restoration of the banished

He 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, […]

— Horatius Bonar
Mar 3, 2010

Remember the blood of Christ

I charge you never to give up the old doctrine of the blood of Christ, the complete satisfaction which that atoning blood made for sin, […]

— J. C. Ryle
Mar 2, 2010

What the gospel is saying

The gospel is saying that, what man cannot do in order to be accepted with God, this God Himself has done for us in the […]

— Graeme Goldsworthy
Mar 1, 2010

One great and predominant affection

It 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 […]

— Thomas Chalmers