The heart of the Gospel is redemption and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary Sacrifice of Christ.

There are two possible responses to the death of Christ for our sin: we can regard it as foolish and so maintain our self-sufficiency and […]

The child, in danger of the fire, just clings to the fireman, and trusts to him alone. She raises no question about the strength of […]

The Lord Jesus Christ, of whom I now speak, is very jealous of your love, O believer. Did he not choose you? He cannot bear […]

“In your presence,” says David, “is the fullness of joy.” (Ps. 16:11) And this joy shall arise chiefly from the vision of God, and partly […]

We become Christians through faith and repentance, and we grow as Christians through continual faith and repentance. We don’t graduate from the gospel to some […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

Christ bore our sin. And he stripped Satan of the one weapon that he had that could damn us: namely, the valid accusation of our […]

Oh, that we might worship the terrible wonder of the love of God! It is not sentimental. It is not simple. For our sake God […]

The incarnation of the Son of God is necessary because the life we have through the new birth is life in union with the incarnate […]

Let us ever bear in mind that our blessed Saviour humbled and abased Himself, yielding even to the contemptuous death on the cross, for the […]