Contrary to cultural opinion, it’s okay to admit that you’re weak, God’s grace is sufficient, but it’s not okay to fake strength!

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

In self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being. For the Eternal Word also gives himself in […]

Only when we turn away from looking at our sin to look at the face of God, to find his pardoning grace, do we begin […]

You are complete in Him. What words are these, from the same man who says, ‘In me dwells no good thing?’ May we learn to […]

It is a source of joy to the Christian, that the Crucified is now the glorified—that He rose triumphant from the grave, and ascended into glory—that […]

If the believer go to the law, he is constantly pained and wounded, and a diseased person is always a repining person, and this fretfulness […]

See yourself and weep. See your God and rejoice.

In the center of the kingdom of God, you do not find a gargantuan palace inhabited by an unapproachable king. No, in the center of […]

Only he who loses his life will save it. We are baptized into the death of Christ, and it is the remedy for the Fall. […]

The cross can be seen as proof of God’s love only when it is at the same time seen as a proof of his justice.

Oh, trust Christ with your whole heart, for ‘He is faithful who has promised.’ The love He has already manifested and proved—yes, sealed with His […]

Christ Jesus—the High Priest and Intercessor, the sympathizing Brother—is the only medium of prayer. There is no access to God but through Him. And if […]

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

It cost God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

Biblical salvation lies not in an escape from this world but in the transformation of this world.… You will not find hope for the world […]

The Father … Son … and Holy Spirit glorify each other.… At the center of the universe, self-giving love is the dynamic currency of the […]

God is the ultimate musician. His music transforms your life. The notes of redemption rearrange your heart and restore your life. His songs of forgiveness, […]

It is finished! (John 19:30) Has Christ perfected and completely finished all His work for us? How sweet a relief is this to against all the […]

The key to change is continually returning to the cross. A changing life is a cross-centered life. At the cross we see our source of […]

God does his alien and wrathful work before he does his proper and loving work; he makes alive by killing, brings to heaven by going […]

Behold, then, beloved, the high vantage-ground on which a saint of God stands, with regard to his hope of heaven. He stands ‘outside’ of his […]

The law demands what it cannot give; grace gives all it demands.

If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.

Jesus, the God-Man, had infinite wealth, but if he had held on to it, we would have died in our spiritual poverty. That was the […]

The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued and that […]

We were created for something bigger than ourselves. The Bible reveals the true story that is to capture our lives. We are ambassadors of the […]

I don’t feel good because you have acknowledged my righteousness, but because I remember that Christ’s has been given over to my account.

Since even the just man, the holiest man, falls as often as seven times a day, indeed, seventy times seven, what are you to do […]

There is great comfort for us in this thought that, however dim our conscious faith and the sense of our salvation, on the Lord’s side […]

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 […]