Archive for September 2011

Sep 30, 2011

Wash and be clean, drink and be refreshed

On that day a fountain will be opened … to cleanse them from sin and impurity. (Zechariah 13:1) Jesus is a fountain containing all good, […]

— James Smith
Sep 29, 2011

When we are ashamed of our pleading for ourselves

He 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 […]

— James Smith
Sep 28, 2011

Moved by the cross and resurrection

The 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 […]

— Rebecca Pippert
Sep 27, 2011

His story and our story

If we miss Jesus as the fulfillment of Old Testament messianic expectations and the foundation of New Testament kingdom proclamation, we unwittingly distance ourselves from […]

— Michael R. Emlet
Sep 26, 2011

The link between Christ and the church

The 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 […]

— Timothy Savage
Sep 25, 2011

What it means to live missionally

To live missionally means to live each waking moment in light of the gospel so that it increasingly affects every part of our lives for […]

— Dan Cruver
Sep 24, 2011

All by His grace

We could not take one step in the pursuit of holiness if God in His grace had not first delivered us from the dominion of […]

— Jerry Bridges
Sep 23, 2011

Our wise and eloquent Advocate

Jesus 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 […]

— James Smith
Sep 22, 2011

Given for us and to us

Love is always generous — but the love of Jesus is especially so; he considers nothing too good for his people, but promises that he […]

— James Smith
Sep 21, 2011

But there is another way

The good news is that God himself has decreed a way to satisfy the demands of his justice without condemning the whole human race. Hell […]

— John Piper
Sep 20, 2011

Sometime before dawn on a Sunday morning

That corpse of Jesus just lay there in the silences of that cave. By all appearances it had been tested and tried, and found wanting. […]

— Russell Moore
Sep 19, 2011

Our lives together make the gospel visible

The 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 […]

— Trevin Wax
Sep 18, 2011

Only because he reigns

God does not send out his church to conquer. He sends us out in the name of the One who has already conquered. We go […]

— Kevin Deyoung and Greg Gilbert
Sep 17, 2011

Our unique and central calling

The church is sent into the world to witness to Jesus by proclaiming the gospel and making disciples of all nations. This is our task. […]

— Kevin Deyoung and Greg Gilbert
Sep 16, 2011

An exhortation for the doubting

Your sense of weakness, of your unworthiness, of your fearfulness, is no proof against you, but rather for you. The sense of all this is […]

— James Smith
Sep 15, 2011

Forever with Christ

We shall be forever with Christ! The presence of Jesus will dissipate all gloom, disperse all slavish fears, chase away all darkness, free from all […]

— James Smith
Sep 14, 2011

Jesus in the present tense

Words 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’ […]

— John Piper
Sep 13, 2011

The key to spiritual renewal

The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel.

— Timothy Keller
Sep 12, 2011

Rich store of every kind abounds in Him

If 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 […]

— John Calvin
Sep 11, 2011

To behold God in faith

If 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 […]

— Martin Luther
Sep 10, 2011

God approves of us in Jesus

God 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 […]

— Joshua Etter
Sep 9, 2011

Victory by faith

The 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 […]

— Charles Spurgeon
Sep 8, 2011

Gabriel cannot love Jesus as a forgiven man will do

We are now capable of a joy which unfallen spirits could not have known: the bliss of pardoned sin, the heaven of deep conscious obligation […]

— Charles Spurgeon
Sep 7, 2011

Possible, prescribed, and precious

There is no righteousness that makes us right with God except for the righteousness of Christ. But for those who have been made right with […]

— Kevin DeYoung
Sep 6, 2011

To die is gain

Christ is shown as great, when death is seen as gain. The reason for this is plain: the glory of Christ is magnified when our […]

— John Piper
Sep 5, 2011

By faith we run the distance

By 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 […]

— Thomas Schreiner & Ardel Caneday
Sep 4, 2011

The fullness of God’s good things

To 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.

— Thomas Schreiner & Ardel Caneday
Sep 3, 2011

Man’s Maker was made man

Man’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 […]

— Augustine
Sep 2, 2011

Your love to me was wonderful

Can 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 […]

— Charles Spurgeon
Sep 1, 2011

A river of goodness

God is a river of goodness streaming down to men through the person of Jesus Christ.

— Charles Spurgeon
Sep 1, 2011

The dawn of a new creation

On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying […]

— G. K. Chesterton