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May 24, 2012

Marvelous, infinite, matchless grace

All your church attendance, all your religious activities, your Sunday school attendance medals, your journals, having a “quiet time,” reading the Scriptures—it’s all in vain if you don’t […]

— Matt Chandler
May 23, 2012

His bride is free from shame

The very essence of the new covenant is that Christ passes over the sins of his bride. His bride is free from shame not because […]

— John Piper
May 22, 2012

God takes action in Christ

God takes action in Christ against sin, death, and the devil. The doctrine of justification is not about the workings of impersonal law in the […]

— David F. Wells
May 21, 2012

Christ unites all who accept the Accepter

The church offers a way forward, beyond mere individualism, beyond mere organization. It is a voluntary community of those who have caught some glimmering of […]

— Chad Walsh
May 18, 2012

The radiance of God’s glory

The writer to the Hebrews says (Hebrews 1:3) that God spoke in several ways in the past but in these last days God has spoken […]

— Terry Virgo
May 16, 2012

A bride being prepared

Ephesians describes the church as God’s new humanity, a colony in which the Lord of history has established a foretaste of the renewed unity and […]

— Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible
May 15, 2012

The Christian imagination

The Christian imagination is anti-Gnostic. The Judeo-Christian imagination is not a flight from physical reality; it is not an aristocratic exercise in personal insight; and […]

— Janine Langan
May 14, 2012

A community of hope

The new community of Jesus is an eschatological community which lives already in the new age he inaugurated. For justification is an eschatological event. It […]

— John Stott
May 11, 2012

A suitable Saviour

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory […]

— Samuel Davies
May 10, 2012

The most cheerful act of your whole life

If you have ever truly believed in Jesus Christ, my friends, it has not been the languid act of a cold, impenitent, unwilling heart—but your […]

— Samuel Davies
May 9, 2012

The gospel starts with a promise

The gospel starts with a promise: a relationship in the Spirit. It is pictured as a meal and a washing: the Lord’s Table and baptism. […]

— Darrel L. Bock
May 8, 2012

Jesus is alive

It seems to me that the great difference between practical theism and practical atheism is the church of the living God. Jesus is alive, and […]

— Josh Moody
May 7, 2012

The beginning of God’s new world

Jesus’ resurrection was the event that marked the beginning of God’s new world and gave them hope that God would one day vindicate all His […]

— Trevin Wax
May 4, 2012

This rock will stand forever

Christ’s righteousness is infinitely perfect, equal to the highest demands of the divine law—and therefore a firm, immovable ground of trust. We may safely venture […]

— Samuel Davies
May 3, 2012

We shall yet burst your bonds, O Death

Jesus has abolished death, overthrown its empire, and delivered its captives; and he has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. Therefore be […]

— Samuel Davies
May 2, 2012

A glimpse of heaven

Our faithful presence here on earth should provide a glimpse of what the life of heaven is like. We are to be a fragrance of the […]

— Trevin Wax
May 1, 2012

A sacred covenant promise

Marriage is patterned after Christ’s covenant relationship to his redeemed people, the church. And therefore, the highest meaning and the most ultimate purpose of marriage […]

— John Piper
Apr 30, 2012

Steadily fixed on Christ Jesus

Let a man preach with the greatest ability and zeal everything in the Bible but the Cross, he shall, as to the great end of […]

— John Brown
Apr 27, 2012

Your salvation makes amends for all His sufferings

Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied. (Isaiah 53:11) The happiness of Christ’s exalted state consists, in a great degree, […]

— Samuel Davies
Apr 26, 2012

He lives forever—to make you happy forever

In trusting your souls to him, you do not commit them to a dead Savior. It is true, he was once dead, but now he […]

— Samuel Davies
Apr 25, 2012

Using all the wrong people

In Jesus’ simple command to ‘make disciples,’ he has invited every one of his followers to share the life of Christ with others in a […]

— David Platt
Apr 24, 2012

A love beyond all love

Knowing the cure tells you a lot about the gravity of the disease. In the cross we see what was needed to cure the wound […]

— Michael D. Williams
Apr 23, 2012

We move on in the gospel

We don not move on from the Gospel. Instead, we move on in the Gospel, for its depths are unfathomable and its implications for life […]

— Gary A. Parrett and S. Steve Kang
Apr 20, 2012

Comforting words: “You are a sinner.”

Luther taught that every time you insist that I am a sinner, just so often do you call me to remember the benefit of Christ […]

— Thomas Oden
Apr 19, 2012

Resurrection and Redemption

In God’s mighty act of raising Jesus bodily from the grave we are right to glimpse the final chapter of the drama of redemption. Indeed, […]

— Michael D. Williams
Apr 18, 2012

News upon which the history of the planet turns

Preach the gospel; use words if necessary’ goes hand in hand with a postmodern assumption that words are finally empty of meaning. It subtly denigrates […]

— Mark Galli
Apr 17, 2012

Looked for and found

A true Christian is not a sheep who has gone looking for the Good Shepherd and found a man who seems to fit the bill, […]

— Gerald Bray
Apr 16, 2012

The biblical story

The Bible is the record of a relationship between God and man. It explains how God loves what he has made and wants us to […]

— Gerald Bray
Apr 11, 2012

The gospel needs to permeate our entire experience

The Gospel is the power of God for the beginning, middle, and end of salvation. It is not merely what we need to proclaim to […]

— Jim Wilhoit
Apr 10, 2012

Our poverty and Jesus’ riches

We are all poor, if only we will see it. We have nothing to offer God except the crushing debt of our sin. But Jesus […]

— Philip Graham Ryken
Apr 9, 2012

Our fully sufficient Savior

To be our fully sufficient Savior, to be the one and only sacrifice for our sins, to be our faithful and merciful high priest, Jesus […]

— Gary A. Parrett and S. Steve Kang
Apr 6, 2012

A horrible potion

All that mankind have heaped up to themselves against the day of God’s holy and righteous wrath — their forgetfulness of God, their selfish conduct, […]

— F. W. Krummacher
Apr 5, 2012

Surely there is forgiveness with God

Is Christ dead? and did he die the violent, painful, shameful, cursed, slow, and lonely death of the cross? Then surely there is forgiveness with […]

— John Flavel
Apr 4, 2012

A revolutionary, liberating truth

When you are satisfied with God’s presence and approval in your life, you will no longer obsess about what everyone else thinks about you. You […]

— J. D. Greear
Apr 3, 2012

True spirituality

True spirituality is not a superhuman religiosity; it is simply true humanity released from bondage to sin and renewed by the Holy Spirit. This is […]

— Richard F. Lovelace