There is always a danger that when we begin to see fruit in our lives, we’ll subtly begin to rely on that fruit for our […]

O Jesus, take my bent away For thinking much of me, And kill my pride, and from this day With mercy make me free. O Jesus, […]

The measure of our new self in Christ—the renewed mind—is the degree to which we look away from ourselves to Christ as our treasure. If […]

There is only one thing in the world that blots out sins. It is not our acts of contrition, not our repentance, not our alms […]

Adoption is the mightiest of God’s mighty acts of salvation, and without transgressing the line between the divine and the created, God does reach across […]

Jesus Christ our Lord, moved by a love that was determined to do everything necessary to save us, endured and exhausted the destructive divine judgment […]

Every time we look a the cross Christ seems to say to us, ‘I am here because of you. It is your sin I am […]

When we think of Christ dying on the cross we are shown the lengths to which God’s love goes in order to win us back […]

Faith in Christ carries in itself a renunciation of that rival power that King Jesus conquered — sin. And where that renunciation of sin is […]

When you’re tempted to doubt God’s love for you, stand before the cross and look at the wounded, dying, disfigured Savior, and realize why He […]

When the Father sends the Son into salvation history, he is doing something astonishing: he is extending the relationship of divine sonship from its home […]

The Father has elected, and the Son has redeemed; but until the Spirit (who is the last cause) has wrought his part also, we cannot […]

The main problem in the Christian life is that we have not thought out the deep implications of the gospel, we have not ‘used’ the […]

When you realize just how dependent you are on Jesus for your salvation — his death for your sin, his life for your righteousness — […]

God provided the solutions to man’s sin and rebellion by sending Jesus as a baby in Bethlehem. Incredibly, God placed that condemnation on His Son, […]

One of the most important things to remember in the Christian life is that we must always live in light of who God is, what […]

God has determined that the gospel will advance through the spoken words of his people — that is, through the mouths of those who have […]

Obviously the Spirit did not die for our sins, but there are less obvious implications of this fact. The work that Jesus Christ does for […]

The Son and the Spirit are both ways that God keeps his promise to be ‘God With Us.’ But the Son is God With Us […]

If we believe in Jesus, we know he is the Messiah. We also know that we are joined to him in all his kingly glory. […]

Oh that we could get a heavenly mindedness about the world so that we see it the way God sees it: lives are a vapor, […]

If Jesus is who he says he is, and if his promises are as rewarding as the Bible claims they are, then we may discover […]

The truth of the Gospel is the principle article of all Christian doctrine.… Most necessary is it that we know this article well, teach it […]

Even as we slog through the trials, persecutions, irritations, temptations, distractions, apathy, and just plain weariness of this world, the gospel points us to heaven […]

When God designed the great and glorious work of recovering fallen man, and the saving of sinners, to the praise of the glory of his […]

We sing the Father’s love– We trust the Saviour’s grace; The Holy Spirit’s power we prove, Amidst the chosen race. We give the Father praise– […]

It is Christ’s manner to trouble our souls first, and then to come with healing in his wings.

This is the picture of Jesus in the gospel. He is something — someone — worth losing everything for. And if we walk away from […]

The person who knows that he is a beloved son does not do good to earn his father’s acceptance. He does good because he knows […]

One Christian pastor threatened with prison by the authorities in Romania said, ‘I discovered that it was not until I was ready to die for […]

Christ has rendered perfect obedience to God in every area of life and has won for his people an everlasting inheritance in the world-to-come. Already […]