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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

‘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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]