An apostolic face and a Judas heart (Letters of J. C. Philpot) Many think that a minister is exempt from suchcoldness, deadness, and barrenness, as privateChristians feel. And the hypocritical looks andwords of many of Satan’s ministers favour thisdelusion. Holiness is so much on their tongues,and on their faces, that their deluded hearersnecessarily conclude that it is in their hearts. […]

WHEN IS A SINNER BORN AGAIN?          Galatians 1:15-16 I have no interest in answering the foolish questions of men about the chronological sequence of events in a man’s salvation. I will leave that to theologians who have nothing better to do than dissect the scriptures. But I do want to tell you when a person may […]

The Unbelief Of Man              Luke 22:67      If I understand the Word of God, the greatest, most abominable evil in this world is the horrible sin of unbelief. I would rather stand before God guilty of any crime known to man than stand before him guilty of having heard and refused to believe the gospel […]

A mother sin Unbelief is a mother sin—a breeding sin. It does not remain in the heart alone, but gives birth to thousands of sins, all springing up out of its prolific womb—like the fabled sea monsters. We see in the wilderness how all through all their journeyings the crying sin of the people of Israel was […]

The foulest filth under the cleanest cloak (J. C. Philpot, “New Years’ Address, 1858“) “Take heed unto yourselves!” Acts 20:28 There are few Christians who have not ever found SELF to be their greatest enemy. The pride, unbelief, hardness, and impenitence of a man’s own heart; the deceitfulness, hypocrisy, and wickedness of his own fallen nature; the […]

My hope lives, not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, He is my righteousness.  My faith rests not upon what I am, or feel or know, but in what Christ is, in what […]

God must save us before we will desire to be saved. God must give light before we know we were in darkness, God must give life before we will know that we were dead. God must do everything in our salvation.                                                  ~John Chapman (Spring Lake Nth Carolina) “And there shall be no […]

Here we see what is in every human heart by nature! (Don Fortner) Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified. Matthew 27:22 Oh, what a revelation of man the cross is! Man hating God, and hating Him most when God […]

People of God.  We can plan and arrange our worship services perfectly according to Scripture, sing just the right songs, pray fervently and Scripturally and even deliver a well studied, God honoring message from the Word of God, but we cannot worship unless the Lord Himself graces our presence with His, and blesses us to […]

“IN CHRIST we have no curse from the law.  IN CHRIST we have no covenant with the law.  IN CHRIST we have no constraint by the law.  IN CHRIST we have no commitment to the law.  We are saved by grace.  We are justified by grace.  We are sanctified by grace.  We are kept and […]