Archive for January 2012

Jan 31, 2012

God made visible

The power of the incarnation is that it makes the presence and glory of God visible. By taking flesh and blood, Christ made known the […]

— Paul David Tripp
Jan 30, 2012

The goal of our salvation

Forgiveness of sins and justification are good news because they remove obstacles to the only lasting, all-satisfying source of joy: Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is […]

— John Piper
Jan 29, 2012

A taste of Christ’s extravagant love

How can any of us who have tasted the extravagant love of Christ be stingy with our resources? Doesn’t His compassion toward us make us […]

— J. D. Greear
Jan 28, 2012

The conscious focus of all saving faith

God’s will is to glorify his Son by making him the conscious focus of all saving faith.

— John Piper
Jan 27, 2012

As Christ would stand

We deserved eternal death; we deserved exclusion from the household of God; but the Lord Jesus took upon himself all the guilt of our sins […]

— J. Gresham Machen
Jan 26, 2012

An ever fuller understanding

Some men seem to devote most of their energies to the task of seeing just how little of Christian truth they can get along with. […]

— J. Gresham Machen
Jan 25, 2012

Jesus’ primary concern

The first two petitions of the Lord’s Prayer are perhaps the clearest statement of all in the teachings of Jesus that missions is driven by […]

— John Piper
Jan 24, 2012

The value of faith

To say ‘justification by faith’ is merely another way of saying ‘justification by Christ’. Faith has absolutely no value in itself; its value lies solely […]

— John Stott
Jan 23, 2012

God, man and the atonement

All inadequate doctrines of the atonement are due to inadequate doctrines of God and man. If we bring God down to our level and raise […]

— John Stott
Jan 20, 2012

The root of all true companionship with Jesus

The companionship of Jesus is indeed a gracious thing for burdened souls; but it is a terrible thing for those who have any trust in […]

— J. Gresham Machen
Jan 19, 2012

He must have been raised

I believe in the miracle which is at the foundation of the Christian Church because in that case the question does not concern merely the […]

— J. Gresham Machen
Jan 18, 2012

From eternity to the eschaton

From eternity to the eschaton, it is all about Christ.

— Peter J. Leithart
Jan 17, 2012

The hinge on which the drama of Scripture turns

Scripture everywhere teaches about Christ. His life, death, and resurrection are the hinge on which the drama of Scripture turns.

— Peter J. Leithart
Jan 16, 2012

The ultimate expression of divine love

The death of Jesus Christ is the ultimate expression of divine love: ‘God demonstrates his own love toward us, in that while we were yet […]

— John Piper
Jan 13, 2012

This flesh shall throb with anguish no more

Our bodies shared the ruin into which sin brought our race. Mortality and corruption took possession of them. They became subject to pain, and weariness, […]

— Horatius Bonar
Jan 12, 2012

The coming of the perfect

The sin, and the darkness, and the misery, and the unbelief, and the distance from God—all these shall come to a final end. In their […]

— Horatius Bonar
Jan 11, 2012

The love and wrath of the Father for the Son

If the Father truly loved the Son, surely he would not have exposed him to such horrific suffering. How can the Son be ‘beloved’ of […]

— Sam Storms
Jan 10, 2012

He meant it

To add to the finished work of Jesus Christ is to disfigure it, mar it, and destroy it altogether. There is nothing you can contribute […]

— James Montgomery Boice and Philip Graham Ryken
Jan 9, 2012

Worship is the fuel and goal of missions

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, […]

— John Piper
Jan 8, 2012

Factoring in God’s presence

God is at peace in himself, and in his presence there is peace. The most repeated negative command in Scripture is ‘fear not.’ It appears […]

— Ramon Presson
Jan 6, 2012

Thirst and Drought

There is a thirst for happiness in the soul of man, but there is a drought in all things but in God.

— Edward Griffin
Jan 5, 2012

A crown for every head, and a head for every crown

An expression which grated on my ear the other evening from the lips of a certain good man ran something in this fashion: ‘There is […]

— Charles Spurgeon
Jan 4, 2012

Hungering souls must go to Christ

There is but One to whom hungering souls must go, if they would not perish forever: they must go to Christ.

— J. C. Ryle
Jan 3, 2012

In Christ alone

In Christ alone God’s rich provision of salvation for sinners is treasured up: by Christ alone God’s abundant mercies come down from heaven to earth.Christ’s […]

— J. C. Ryle
Jan 2, 2012

Christ the priest

Christ is now carrying on in heaven the work of a priest, which He began upon earth.He took our nature on Him in the fullness […]

— J. C. Ryle