Archive for September 2011
Wash and be clean, drink and be refreshed
— James Smith Sep 29, 2011On that day a fountain will be opened … to cleanse them from sin and impurity. (Zechariah 13:1) Jesus is a fountain containing all good, […]
When we are ashamed of our pleading for ourselves
— James Smith Sep 28, 2011He ever lives and abides a Priest continually. His continuance in the Priestly office should comfort us under all our heart-breakings, short-comings, and deadness in prayer […]
Moved by the cross and resurrection
— Rebecca Pippert Sep 27, 2011The cross, by revealing the offer of God’s forgiveness through Christ, moves us to a life lived in gratitude. The resurrection, by revealing the rich […]
His story and our story
— Michael R. Emlet Sep 26, 2011If we miss Jesus as the fulfillment of Old Testament messianic expectations and the foundation of New Testament kingdom proclamation, we unwittingly distance ourselves from […]
The link between Christ and the church
— Timothy Savage Sep 25, 2011The link between Christ and the church is nearly seamless. The church is the body of Christ, and Christ is its head (Col. 1:18). The […]
What it means to live missionally
— Dan Cruver Sep 24, 2011To live missionally means to live each waking moment in light of the gospel so that it increasingly affects every part of our lives for […]
All by His grace
— Jerry Bridges Sep 23, 2011We could not take one step in the pursuit of holiness if God in His grace had not first delivered us from the dominion of […]
Our wise and eloquent Advocate
— James Smith Sep 22, 2011Jesus is our wise and eloquent Advocate. He has undertaken our cause, he lives in Heaven for our sakes; our enemies are considered his enemies, and our well-being […]
Given for us and to us
— James Smith Sep 21, 2011Love is always generous — but the love of Jesus is especially so; he considers nothing too good for his people, but promises that he […]
But there is another way
— John Piper Sep 20, 2011The good news is that God himself has decreed a way to satisfy the demands of his justice without condemning the whole human race. Hell […]
Sometime before dawn on a Sunday morning
— Russell Moore Sep 19, 2011That corpse of Jesus just lay there in the silences of that cave. By all appearances it had been tested and tried, and found wanting. […]
Our lives together make the gospel visible
— Trevin Wax Sep 18, 2011The church is the embodiment of the gospel message. God’s plan from the very beginning has been to spotlight His glory by redeeming a people […]
Only because he reigns
— Kevin Deyoung and Greg Gilbert Sep 17, 2011God does not send out his church to conquer. He sends us out in the name of the One who has already conquered. We go […]
Our unique and central calling
— Kevin Deyoung and Greg Gilbert Sep 16, 2011The church is sent into the world to witness to Jesus by proclaiming the gospel and making disciples of all nations. This is our task. […]
An exhortation for the doubting
— James Smith Sep 15, 2011Your sense of weakness, of your unworthiness, of your fearfulness, is no proof against you, but rather for you. The sense of all this is […]
Forever with Christ
— James Smith Sep 14, 2011We shall be forever with Christ! The presence of Jesus will dissipate all gloom, disperse all slavish fears, chase away all darkness, free from all […]
Jesus in the present tense
— John Piper Sep 13, 2011Words like: ‘I am the bread of life’ (John 6:35). ‘I am the light of the world’ (John 8:12). ‘I am not of this world’ […]
The key to spiritual renewal
— Timothy Keller Sep 12, 2011The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel.
Rich store of every kind abounds in Him
— John Calvin Sep 11, 2011If we seek salvation, we are taught by the very name of Jesus that it is ‘of him.’ If we seek any other gifts of the Spirit, they […]
To behold God in faith
— Martin Luther Sep 10, 2011If you have a true faith that Christ is your Saviour, then at once you have a gracious God for faith leads you I and opens […]
God approves of us in Jesus
— Joshua Etter Sep 9, 2011God approves of us in Jesus, and we should receive and enjoy God’s acceptance of us. But this is not the final end of God’s […]
Victory by faith
— Charles Spurgeon Sep 8, 2011The Christian is to carry on his warfare in faith. You will be vanquished, indeed, if you attempt it by any other method! Brethren, there is […]
Gabriel cannot love Jesus as a forgiven man will do
— Charles Spurgeon Sep 7, 2011We are now capable of a joy which unfallen spirits could not have known: the bliss of pardoned sin, the heaven of deep conscious obligation […]
Possible, prescribed, and precious
— Kevin DeYoung Sep 6, 2011There is no righteousness that makes us right with God except for the righteousness of Christ. But for those who have been made right with […]
To die is gain
— John Piper Sep 5, 2011Christ is shown as great, when death is seen as gain. The reason for this is plain: the glory of Christ is magnified when our […]
By faith we run the distance
— Thomas Schreiner & Ardel Caneday Sep 4, 2011By faith we run the distance that lies between the now and the not yet. By faith we now lay hold of God’s word of […]
The fullness of God’s good things
— Thomas Schreiner & Ardel Caneday Sep 3, 2011To gain Christ is to receive all that is in him: righteousness, salvation, eternal life, redemption, sanctification, adoption, the fullness of God’s good things for us.
Man’s Maker was made man
— Augustine Sep 2, 2011Man’s maker was made man, that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother’s breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the […]
Your love to me was wonderful
— Charles Spurgeon Sep 1, 2011Can you imagine it, that God, who is greater than immensity, whose life is longer than time, that God the all-boundless One, should love you? That […]
A river of goodness
— Charles Spurgeon Sep 1, 2011God is a river of goodness streaming down to men through the person of Jesus Christ.
The dawn of a new creation
— G. K. ChestertonOn the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying […]
