That Heavenly Teacher (Philpot, “Daily Words for Zion’s Wayfarers”) We do not learn that we are sinners merely by reading it in the Bible. It must be wrought, I might say, burnt into us. Nor will anyone sincerely and spiritually cry for mercy, until sin is spiritually felt and known . . . in its misery, […]
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought […]
The Golden Key! The Golden Thread! by Octavius Winslow Jesus is the one great theme both of the Old Testament and the New. The whole Bible is designed to testify of Christ, “The Scriptures point to Me!” John 5:39 In Christ the Messiah, in Jesus the Savior, in the Son of God the Redeemer — all the truths of the […]
All true religion Jesus is . . . our sun, and without Him all is darkness; our life, and without Him all is death; the beginner and finisher of our faith; the substance of our hope; the object of our love. It is the Spirit who quickens us . . . to feel our need […]
Some Things We Know I Peter 1:18-23 Believers are men and women who are taught of God. Being taught of God, they know some things. Others have opinions, theories, speculations, and conjectures, but believers know some things. Here are four things that Peter says the people of God know. 1. WE KNOW THAT WE WERE […]
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 […]