What a mercy it is to have a conscience in any measure purged from dead works to serve the living God; to feel any free access to his gracious Majesty, any happy liberty in walking before him, any deliverance from doubt and fear, any removal of those exercises which try the mind and often bring […]

Redeemed (Thomas Brooks, “Paradise Opened” 1675) “For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers.” 1 Pet. 1:18 Christ redeems us from all sin—and from all the consequences of sin. He endured the wrath of God […]

The Gospel of God is not good advice, but good news. In preaching the Gospel we do not tell sinners what they must do, but what God has done.- Don Fortner.

Christ is . . . (J. C. Ryle) “Christ is all.” Colossians 3:11 True Christians have trustful thoughts of Christ. They daily lean the weight of their souls upon Him by faith—for pardon and peace. They daily commit the care of their souls to Him —as a man commits a treasure to a safe keeper. They […]

I can spend the rest of my life attacking, one at a time, every heretic who ever lied on God, by pointing out all the wrong things they say, and for every one I denounce, there will be a thousand more I will never have time to address. Or, I can just declare the truth […]

He has done all things well. I’ll sing of Jesus crucified, The Lamb of God who bled and died, A healing balm, a crimson tide, Flowed from His head, His feet, His side! Above the rest this note shall swell, ‘My Jesus has done all things well.’ He sought me in the wilderness, And found […]

“He has done all things well!” Mark 7:37 By Octavius Winslow, “The sigh of Christ” Yes, from first to last, from our cradle to our grave, from the earliest pang of sin’s conviction, to the last thrill of sin’s forgiveness, from earth to heaven — this will be our testimony in all the way the […]

“He hath done all things well.” Mark 7:37 If these men and women who had seen our Savior’s miracles were astonished and cried out, “He hath done all things well,” how much more astonished we ought to be who have tasted and experienced his grace! How much more we ought to confess to God our […]

Is My God The God? Isaiah 41: 21-29 An idol is an image made to represent God (Deuteronomy 4: 15-19). But idolatry is man worshipping himself (Romans 1: 22-25). Just as an image is the work of man’s hand, every man whose salvation is in some aspect dependent upon what he has done is worshipping […]

Paying for admittance into heaven (Horatius Bonar, “Bible Thoughts and Themes”) “He saved us–not by works of righteousness that we had done, but according to His mercy.” Titus 3:5 Ritualism, or externalism, or traditionalism are all different forms of self-righteousness; man’s self-invented ways of pleasing or appeasing God, or paying for admittance into heaven. These forms of […]