Is not Christ your treasure? Is not heaven your inheritance—and will you murmur? Has not God given you a changed heart, a renewed nature, and a sanctified soul—and will you […]

Worship is the gift of participating through the Spirit in the incarnate Son’s communion with the Father.

Grace is not an excuse for weakness; it is an endless resource for strength.

A Christian’s new DNA, which he’s received from the Word and Spirit, knows that it now belongs to something larger. And he’s not content to […]

It is one thing to feel that God as our Maker supports us by his power, governs us by his providence, nourishes us by his […]

Christ has already borne the curses for our disobedience and earned for us the blessings of obedience. As a result we are now to look […]

The returning prodigal is met not only with the tear and the grasp of parental forgiveness, but high festival is kept within these paternal halls. […]

‘Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you, from the […]

How do those things belonging to Christ become our own? The answer is that it is accomplished through the Spirit and by faith. We are […]

Without knowing the dramatic plot and its doctrinal significance, our doxology becomes unfocused. Our praise lacks not only depth but even its rationale: For what […]

The Love that God is, is not that of solitary inactive or static love, whatever that may be, but the active movement of reciprocal loving within […]

The link between Christ cancelling my sin on the cross and my sin being conquered is a Holy Spirit empowered will.

The pattern of the Cross means that the world’s glorification of power, might, and status is exposed and defeated. On the Cross Christ wins through […]

A young minister, while visiting the cabin of a veteran Scotch woman who had grown ripe in experience, said to her, ‘Nannie, what if, after […]

Jesus Christ is so far from hating us, who are His own flesh, that He applies all sorts of remedies with a strong patience for […]

In both its precepts and penalty, the law of God in its most exacting requirements was fulfilled by Jesus. And He did this in our […]

A Substitute has appeared in space and time, appointed by God Himself, to bear the weight and the burden of our transgressions, to make expiation […]

If the cross shows me that I am far worse than I had ever imagined, it also shows me that my evil has been absorbed […]

Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.

Jesus is not man becoming God, but God becoming man—God incarnate, God descending into human flesh, coming into it from outside and from above, in order […]

Let us suppose, in the manner of some romances, that a king was betrothed to a beautiful wife, whose picture was sent to him before […]

My brethren, what is it that makes God happy but God Himself? And what is it that makes Christ so happy but that He is […]

The bad news is far worse than making mistakes or failing to live up to the legalistic standards of fundamentalism. It is that the best […]

The challenge before us as Christian witnesses is whether we will offer Jesus Christ as the key to fulfilling our narcissistic preoccupation or as the […]

God has a strategy to exalt his Son and magnify his grace. That strategy is to choose the foolish, weak, and lowly people of the […]

Through the gospel, we command people to submit to Jesus. Through the gospel, judgment is passed on those who reject him. We are ambassadors of […]

At the all-important pivot of human history, the worst sin ever committed served to show the greatest glory of Christ and obtain the sin-conquering gift […]

What shall be the revenues of glory purchased by His death? Think what a large possession the blood of Christ will procure. Think, I say, […]

A man does not possess Christ by faith in the way he possesses money in his cupboard or deeds of land, which he takes for […]

The only way of receiving supplies of spiritual strength and grace from Jesus Christ, on our part, is by faith. Hereby we come unto him, […]

The faith that saves is the faith that sanctifies, because it rests alone on Christ and his work.