The absolute Monarch of the universe!  by Don Fortner To worship a god… …whose purpose can be defeated, …whose will can be thwarted, …whose work can be overturned, and …whose grace can be frustrated is to worship an idol. Such a god is no GOD at all! Jesus Christ our Lord is the unrivalled Sovereign […]

Jesus Christ is precious!” John Newton was a rough, dirty sailor with a foul mouth and an appetite for filthy living. He hated life and life hated him.  He was the captain of a slave ship and eventually became a slave himself.  In due course, he escaped and was in a ship that hit an […]

Afflicted saint, when you are fretful and desponding – think what a lost soul, who had been in Hell but an hour, would give for a drop of that grace which you have in your heart! Think seriously of this and be thankful!                         […]

A religion that satisfies thousands (Philpot, “The Cry of Jonah out of the Belly of Hell“) “Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”      2 Tim. 3:5 Much that passes for religion, is not true religion at all. Much that goes for hopes of salvation, is nothing but lying refuges. […]

The best and the only sufficient expositors of Scripture John Newton “Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth.” John 16:13 Psalm 25:14, “The secret of the LORD is with them that fear Him; and He will shew then His covenant” — not notionally, but experimentally. A few minutes of the Spirit’s […]

My spiritual life began in looking to Christ only. The way I persevere in the faith is by continuing to look to Christ only. My desire is that the last breath I take here on earth will be looking to Christ only. The employment of eternity, albeit without this sinful nature, will be looking to […]

THOUGHTS FOR THE NEW YEAR             “Grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior” (II Peter 3:18).  This is an imperative.  This is a command to grow in grace and with the command of God also comes the ability!  In the coming year, by grace, we […]

Christ – God’s Salvation Luke 2:30 Our only hope of salvation is the Lord Jesus Christ. Salvation is in him alone, in him completely, and in him only. In fact, he is God’s salvation (Lk. 2:30). We cannot be saved without him; and we cannot be saved if we try to mix our own works, […]

The infinities of bliss and glory! (Henry Law, “Forgiveness of Sins” 1875) “Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief:” Isaiah 53:10 The Father of all mercies heaped on Christ the outpourings of His wrath; that He may heap on pardoned sinners the infinities of bliss and glory! “Christ died for the ungodly.” Romans […]

We are no better than they (John Newton’s Letters) Jesus, full of compassion and tenderness, wept over His enemies, and prayed for His actual murderers! A feeling of this kind seems essential to that new nature which characterizes the children of God; and where it is not in habitual exercise, it is a sufficient evidence […]