The gospel announcement births people into God’s kingdom, and God makes His kingdom visible through the formation of His church.

To be a community of light from which the light of Christ will emanate we need to be intentional in our relationships — to love […]

God’s love for sinners is stronger than his condemnation of sin.

Here’s our position as Christians: we live in a Christ-rejecting world with all its sin and death, but we belong to a Christ-exalting family with […]

The gospel is for us, not about us. It isn’t about anything that we do, feel, or choose. It is the Good News about Jesus […]

The prayer which moves the arm of God is still a sinful prayer, and only moves that arm because the Sinless One, the great Mediator, […]

We need no nobler or more cogent arguments to lead a man to thorough consecration to God’s cause and detestation of all evil than those […]

All the saving events and all the saving blessings of the gospel are means of getting obstacles out of the way so that we might […]

God, because in his mercy he willed to forgive sinful men, and being truly merciful, willed to forgive them righteously, that is, without in any […]

What looks more glorious? A God who loves us by ignoring our sin? Or a God who pays the enormous debt for our sin by […]

Just as we are justified by Christ’s righteousness worked out by Him and imputed to us, so we are sanctified by holiness accomplished in Christ, […]

God the Judge has promised to completely wipe out the evil of the world. And yet, He loves us. In His grace, He is the […]

When God had mercy on us, when God revealed Jesus Christ to us as our brother, when God won our hearts by God’s own love, […]

Our standing is not founded upon the subduing of our sins, but upon that foundation that never fails, and that is Christ Himself.

It is the glory of our faith that the King Himself entered the gates of righteousness wholly on His merits and perfected through suffering; and […]

Ironically, when we live as if our personal story is at the center of our universe, we struggle to find meaning and significance. But when […]

The restoration of all things will take place in two ways. Christ will return to judge sin and evil, and He will usher in righteousness and […]

At just the right time and in just the right place, God comes to His people. But he doesn’t come as the great Judge, purging the […]

If our works are not motivated by God’s love to us and do not flow out of reconciliation with Him, then we are still at […]

One day, in my wanderings, I heard a cry, a groan; methought ‘twas not a cry such as came from mortal lip, it had in […]

To continually behold the Lamb of God is life to our souls and death to our sins.

God is not a prisoner of our faith, but of his own perfection. Faith obligates God to act not because it is a magical incantation […]

The righteousness of God is a command that condemns us all, but the righteousness from God is a gift that saves all who believe. The […]

In the biblical drama, all of our expectations, assumptions, and cherished ideas are thrown into question. God the judge bears the sentence that his own […]

If you read Scripture carefully, you will never get the idea that the work of Christ is for well-adjusted people who just need a little […]

Because he never gave in, because he did not run away, because he never went where temptation would lead him, but stood strong until that […]

I shall have three grand holidays: one when the Holy Spirit sets my soul at liberty, another when death sets me free from this mortal clay, and and […]

I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation — so that […]

Christ wins our salvation through losing, achieves power through weakness and service, comes to wealth via giving all away. And those who receive his salvation […]

If you think God is far away and indifferent, here is the surprising revelation. From the foundation of the world, God knew your sufferings and […]

The sacrifice of Jesus is the moment when the human race, in the person of a single man, offers itself fully to the creator.