A gospel which is only about the moment of conversion but does not extend to every moment of life in Christ is too small. A gospel […]

That same Jesus who once died for sinners, still lives at the right hand of God, to carry on the work of salvation which He […]

From Genesis to Revelation, God’s Word is all about Jesus, and thus it has the power to bring salvation through faith in Him.

God wants us to find our primary joy in our objectively declared justification, not in our subjectively perceived sanctification.

God has a story for you. As you listen to the Word of God, and allow the Holy Spirit to plant it in your heart, […]

Christians stand on the very brink of eternity. Jesus Christ, the last Adam, has completed the work of the first Adam and entered the new […]

The content of worship comes from the Bible, the goal of worship is to give praise to God, and the basis for worship is the […]

If we would rise to the full measure of God’s standard for us, let us realize the magnitude of God as well as of our […]

God’s eternal life as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is a thing of infinite blessedness and perfection. There is a blessed God at the core […]

Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God’s love, they cannot escape the cross.

There is no other object of knowledge in the universe that exposes proud, man-exalting thinking like the cross does. Only humble, Christ-exalting thinking can survive […]

God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man.

Our Father in heaven, please show me the difference between real faith and a demanding presumptive faith — so I can put my trust in […]

Give up your success-and-failure patterns. Seek grace in Christ, humbly and honestly. Understand that a conviction of sin does not make you neurotic, but rather […]

Scripture teaches that God is a communion of Persons and has never been a solitary individual. The one triune God has always enjoyed perfect loving […]

This Christian righteousness is the greatest righteousness. It has nothing to do with what we do or how hard we work, but it is given […]

When one does not preach faith and does not let our incorporation in Christ and our becoming a branch in Him be the matter of […]

Jesus is Emmanuel, so there is never a situation, location or experience where you are left to yourself.

Adoption is ultimately about relationship, and the relationship that transcends and is the foundation of all others is the relationship(s) that the Persons of the […]

It is important to realize that our Lord Jesus Christ perfectly fulfilled the law of God, both in its requirements and its penalty. He did […]

The joyful news of the gospel is that God the Father brings us to share in the loving communion that he forever enjoys with his […]

If the Lord Jesus Christ had not literally risen physically from the grave, we could never be certain that he had ever really finished the […]

By his death sin was taken away, by his resurrection righteousness was renewed and restored. For how could he by dying have freed us from […]

Nothing puts life into men like a dying Savior.

You were hardwired to live in two communities of love, with God and your neighbor. Only grace can make you willing and able.

The crucial significance of the cradle at Bethlehem lies in its place in the sequence of steps that led the Son of God to the […]

The Christian life is a thank-you from beginning to end as we ponder what God has done. What an absurdity to think that we could […]

The fact that Jesus had to die for me humbled me out of my pride. The fact that Jesus was glad to die for me […]

I believe, that all the sufferings of Christ were done, not for himself, who never committed sin, in whose mouth was never found deceit nor […]

If Jesus had not been raised, none of the following things, listed in order of their appearance in Acts, would have been possible: The sending of […]

All mortal vanities, be gone, Nor tempt my eyes, nor tire my ears, Behold amidst th’ eternal throne A vision of the Lamb appears.