Christian hope is not about wishing things will get better. It is not about hoping that emptiness will go away, meaning return, and life will […]

Jesus’ earthly resurrection was not intended to be just the first resurrection, but the first in a line of future resurrections. His resurrection guarantees the […]

The blessedness of God’s inner life is the only thing that is even better than the good news. The life of God in itself is […]

The Christ who has come to save the sons of men is persevering to the last degree. ‘He shall not fail, nor be discouraged, till […]

Christ is the power of God. Omnipotence dwells in him who once was slain, but now ever liveth, and he is able to save unto […]

Jesus is what we drink. “Come to me and drink” (John 7:37). Jesus doesn’t just have what our souls need; he is what our souls need. Recall […]

As the captain of salvation, Jesus Christ in his earthly ministry marched from Sinai to Zion, leading captivity captive. Resisting the way of glory falsely […]

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

The Son’s will is to please his Father, not just to save us; and the Father’s will is to have all men honor the Son, […]

Do any of us find decays of grace prevailing in us; deadness, coldness, lukewarmness, a kind of spiritual stupidity and senselessness coming upon us? Do […]

Pardon, peace, spiritual life—all of them are gifts, divine gifts, brought down from heaven by the Son of God, presented personally to each needy sinner […]

Imputed righteousness must come first. You cannot have the righteousness within—until you have the righteousness without; and to make your own righteousness the price which […]

In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more, and nothing I have done that makes You love me less.

The amount which you understand the gospel is measured by your ability to be joyful in all circumstances. If you grasp what a treasure the […]

The God of forever, who created people to live with him forever, set in motion a plan to deal with death, the one thing smack-dab […]

Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another. The gospel is not just […]

It is all a delusion for any one to think he can love the Infinite Spirit as manifested in nature or in the Scriptures, if […]

You are not justified by the Spirit’s work—but by Christ’s alone; nor are the motions of the Spirit in you the grounds of your confidence, […]

“How shall I go to God?” It is with our sins that we go to God—for we have nothing else to go with that we […]

The gospel transforms us in heart, mind, will, and actions precisely because it is not itself a message about our transformation. Nothing that I am […]

Jesus has come for losers, people on the margins, people who’ve made a mess of their lives, people who are ordinary. Jesus has come for […]

When our conscience won’t quiet down as it should, when we’ve taken ourselves over and over to Calvary in repentance, we’ve got to declare to […]

Before all time; prior to all worlds; when there was nothing ‘outside of’ God Himself; when the Father, Son, and Spirit found eternal, absolute, and […]

The death of Christ is the wisdom of God by which the love of God saves sinners from the wrath of God, all the while […]

The love of Jesus, which had been fixed upon his people from all eternity, is manifested to them in time — by calling them out […]

Grace means the generous heart of God who determines to treat sinful men and women as he lovingly wishes rather than as they actually deserve. […]

Our Savior, the one who loves and welcomes us, tells us where our treasure should be: with his kingdom and his righteousness (Matt. 6:33). If our […]

The knowledge of Christ’s death for us as our sin-bearing substitute requires us to see ourselves as dead, risen, and alive forevermore in him. We […]

In the arrest, trial, and crucifixion of Christ, man’s sin was more than visible. Man’s disobedience to God, his rejection of truth, his cruelty, his […]

I’m afraid we often take the glorious for me of the gospel and separate it from the for us and the for God. We shrink […]

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 […]