— The Individual Believer Eternal life is by the Seed being sown within us–Christ in you the hope of glory.  We begin as babes. And children grow up.  The Lord compared faith to a grain of mustard seed, we grow in faith.  Believers are complete in Christ–it is not the measure of our faith that […]

I believe that Christ came into the world not to put men into a salvable state, but into a saved state. Not to put them where they could save themselves, but to do the work in them and for them, from first to last. If I did not believe that there was might going forth […]

A question for streetlights. Isaiah 13: 10: For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. When I was a teenager growing up in the country I almost always had a […]

Beware of religion without Christ!   Mark 4:1-20 – The Parable of the Sower You may think, “All is well with my soul. No one could ever feel what I feel and experience what I have experienced and yet be lost.” You ought to think again! False faith is a strong delusion, a delusion by which, […]

God Promises “[I] will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty” (2 Corinthians 6:18). “Ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:26). “Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, […]

More scarce and precious than a bar of gold! from Octavius Winslow’s, “The Redeemer, the Revelation of the Father’s Glory” October, 1844 “The time is surely coming,” says the Sovereign Lord, “when I will send a famine on the land; not a famine of bread or water but of hearing the words of the Lord.” […]

And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to His purpose for them.” Romans 8:28 (adapted from Octavius Winslow’s, “All Things Working for Good”) It is palpably clear and emphatically true that all that occurs in the Lord’s government of His […]

THE GRACIOUS INVITATION “Come unto me all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” —Matthew 11:28. Gracious “word” of a gracious Savior, on which the soul may confidingly repose, and be at peace forever! It is a present rest—the rest of grace as well as the rest of glory. […]

How am I to worship God? (by Horatius Bonar) Man asks, “How am I to worship God?” and he has answered it also in his own way. In the gorgeous temple, in the pillared cathedral, with incense, and vestments, and forms, and ceremonies, and processions, and postures, he says. But these performances are the ‘will […]

WHY IS THE GOSPEL OFFENSIVE TO MEN? No man can faithfully preach the gospel of Christ without offending men. Unbelievers and self-righteous religionists are always offended by the gospel. To many it is a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. The preaching of the cross is the one means which God has ordained […]