Satan accuses Christians day and night. It is not just that he will work on our conscience to make us feel as dirty, guilty, defeated, […]

Whenever those things present themselves to us which would lead us away from resting in God alone, let us make use of this sentiment as […]

Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope. Psalm 119:49 Banquet your faith upon God’s own word, and whatever […]

Jesus Christ the Son of God descended into our house of bondage to bring us into the house of God the Father.

If Christ had remained dead like any other ‘savior’ or ‘teacher’ or ‘prophet,’ his death would have meant nothing more than yours and mine. Death’s […]

The Bible is the story of God’s counteroffensive against sin. It is the grand narrative of how God made it right, how he is making […]

We must see that the righteousness of Christ that is transferred to us is the righteousness He achieved by living under the Law for thirty-three […]

Dilemma wretched: how shall holiness Of brilliant light unshaded, tolerate Rebellion’s fetid slime, and not abate In its own glory, compromised at best? Dilemma wretched: […]

Just as the caterpillar becomes a butterfly, as carbon is converted into diamond, as the grain of wheat upon dying in the ground produces other […]

When we go to the cross, we see our God dying for us. If you let any other god down, it will beat you up. […]

The Father is intimately involved in our lives so that our circumstances train us in godliness. The Son has set us free from both the […]

How can God have mercy on sinners without destroying justice? What can it mean that God forgives iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no […]

On the basis of who he was and what he accomplished, Jesus made his demands. The demands cannot be separated from his person and work. […]

The necessity for the atonement of Christ finds its genesis, in the first instance, in the character of God. Because He is holy and righteous, […]

You have offended the infinite God with your sins, but an infinite price has been paid. You ought to be judged for your sins, but […]

Christ has been judged in order to free us from the judgment of God. He has been prosecuted as a criminal so that we criminals […]

Telling a slave to be free is to add insult to injury. But telling a liberated slave to be free is an invitation to enjoy […]

We become Christians by faith in Jesus, we stay Christians by faith in Jesus, and we grow as Christians by faith in Jesus.

God is loving, but a major part of what He loves is His own perfect character, with a major aspect being the importance of maintaining […]

Getting the glory of Christ before your eyes and keeping it there — is the greatest work of the Spirit that I can imagine.

When sin is depicted as a debt, the New Testament calls Christ our Surety (Heb. 7:22). That’s an economic term, just as debt is an […]

All that mankind have heaped up to themselves against the day of God’s holy and righteous wrath — their forgetfulness of God, their selfish conduct, […]

All these things which were to be the weapons of the devil in his battle against us, and the sting of death to pierce us, […]

God blesses us all up to the full measure and extremity of what it is safe for him to do. If you do not get […]

I testify from inside the battle to my comrades in the warfare: In the name of Jesus, and by the authority of his word and […]

For the New Testament authors, the ‘gospel’ was the proclamation that the true King had come to claim his throne, with all its cosmic, corporate, […]

God displays his righteousness by judging sin as sin deserves, but the judgment is diverted from the guilty and put on to the shoulders of […]

Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; — but the Father, for love!

I find no balm for a sore conscience, and a troubled heart, like the sight of Jesus dying for me on the accursed tree. There […]

Every good thing we could think or desire is to be found in this same Jesus Christ alone. For he was sold, to buy us back; […]