Of Time and Eternity Today, men talk about salvation only as something done in the experience of time with eternal consequences. But in the Bible salvation is described as something done by God in eternity past, revealed and experienced in time, and enjoyed in eternity future. Read the Word of God, marking the verb tenses […]
Sovereign Grace Is The Gospel Let us state clearly our understanding of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The gospel is the message of God’s love and saving grace to particular sinners by the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the God-man. Where there is no preaching of substitutionary atonement, covenant guarantor and representation of […]
FUTURE UNFOLDINGS -John MacDuff. “This is the resting place, let the weary rest; and this is the place of repose”— “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” John 13:7 A gracious ‘whisper’ into the ear of an ardent and loving but impetuous apostle, from Him who was Himself […]
Sovereign Grace Is The Gospel Let us state clearly our understanding of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The gospel is the message of God’s love and saving grace to particular sinners by the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the God-man. Where there is no preaching of substitutionary atonement, covenant guarantor and representation of […]
“His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers.” Song of Solomon 5:13 Lo, the flowery month is come! March winds and April showers have done their work, and the earth is all bedecked with beauty. Come my soul, put on your holiday attire and go forth to gather garlands of heavenly thoughts. […]
“His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers.” Song of Solomon 5:13 Lo, the flowery month is come! March winds and April showers have done their work, and the earth is all bedecked with beauty. Come my soul, put on your holiday attire and go forth to gather garlands of heavenly thoughts. […]
The chief among ten thousand, the altogether lovely One! (by Octavius Winslow) With what pen, dipped though it were in heaven’s brightest hues, can we portray the image of Jesus? The perfection of our Lord was the perfection of holiness. His Deity, essential holiness; His humanity without sin, the impersonation of holiness. All that He […]
Christ Is All! James Smith, 1855 What the sun is to the world — that Christ is to the Church. What the soul is to the body — that Christ is to the soul. It has pleased the Father, that in him should all fullness dwell — and emptiness is written upon everything out of […]
As we sat the silent hillsides around us were in a moment filled with life and sound. The shepherds led their flocks forth from the gates of the city. They were in full view, and we watched them and listened to them with no little interest. Thousands of sheep and goats were there, grouped in […]
Does the scriptures teach that believers have two natures? There is the natural man “receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them”. (1 Cor.2:14) In 1 Peter 1:23 where it says there is two seeds, a birth and flesh, one seed is corruptible […]