Let us not trifle with God or trivialize his love. We will never stand in awe of being loved by God until we reckon with […]

The doctrine of Christ crucified is the grand center of union among true Christians. Does a man really and sincerely glory in the cross of […]

To be in Christ is to be in the midst of that new creation, which is to come forth from the ruins of these old […]

The Christian faith is not a mere collection of doctrines — a bag of truths. Christianity is a comprehensive truth claim that encompasses every aspect […]

What is perhaps most striking about God’s love, and what is certainly most pertinent to our understanding of the church, is that the Lord wants […]

The vocation of the local church could scarcely be more exalted. Called out of the world to be a light in the world, to be […]

‎He is risen! And O the overflow of that single event. It was the cosmic Yes! from God the Father that the death had done […]

By vanquishing our sin in these two respects–paying sin’s penalty and purging sin’s power–Christ fits us for membership in his holy community. Costly to him […]

There stands the mysterious cross—a rock against which the very waves of the curse break. He who so mercifully engaged to direct this judgment against […]

I never despair of anyone becoming a decided Christian, whatever he may have been in days gone by. I know how great the change is […]

Imagine your worst moment of guilt and shame, the memory that, when you let it, haunts you and threatens to hound you to the grave. […]

Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It’s mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It’s about portraying something true about […]

Tears of sentimentality and pity are nowhere so much out of place as on Calvary. While resigning ourselves to such emotions, we mistake the Lord […]

The best way to define and defend the gospel is to love, embody, and propagate it.

There is an element in the Gospel narratives that stresses that the coming of Jesus is a disturbing event of the deepest proportions. It had […]

The idea of being the Substitute in offering an atonement to satisfy the demands of God’s law for others was something Christ understood as His […]

What I say I believe and know about Jesus is only meaningful when I put it into action through service.

The fight is not the oppressive struggle to earn God’s final rest, but the satisfying struggle to rest in the peace that Jesus freely gives.…Don’t […]

Preaching the gospel to ourselves every day addresses both the self-righteous Pharisee and the guilt-laden sinner that dwell in our hearts. Since the gospel is […]

The Gospel in fact is a most curiously and delicately compounded medicine, and is a medicine that is very easily spoiled. You may spoil the […]

The lessons of the cross are ones we never outgrow, for the further we go the deeper we get.

God redeemed us in his Son so that he might love us and delight in us even as he loves and delights in his eternal […]

True Christians shall never perish. Kings of the earth and mighty men shall depart and be no more seen; thrones and dominions and principalities, rich men […]

The Good Shepherd Jesus knows you well, though you may not think it. You never shed a secret tear over your own corruption, you never breathed […]

By forgiving us, God changes our past. By promising, God secures our futures. By his grace we participate in his power to change the past […]

The story of the Bible is that God the Father sent His only true and eternal Son on a mission, and that mission was to bring many […]

Missions is about the worship of Jesus. The goal of missions is the global worship of Jesus by his redeemed people from every tribe, tongue, […]

Shredded flesh against unforgiving wood, iron stakes pounded through bone and wracked nerves, joints wrenched out of socked by the sheer dead weight of the […]

The fellowship of believers in Jesus Christ represents a gathering that takes place in heaven where Jesus Christ is exalted at the right hand of God.

Consider that the saints’ dying-day is to them the Lord’s pay-day. Every prayer shall then have its answer; all hungerings and thirstings shall be filled […]