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 […]

“Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.” Mark 8:34b To “come after” Christ is to be where He is. The Holy Spirit has put into the hearts of all God’s people the utmost desire to be where the Lord Jesus Christ is, now and in the […]

Come and eat! (Horatius Bonar, “The Bread of Immortality”) “I am the bread of life.” John 6:48 “I am the living bread.” John 6:51 All food is for the sustaining of life. Jesus announces Himself as the bread which will sustain the life of the soul. Not merely some doctrine–but Himself. He is the bread; not merely bread–but thebread–the one true […]

What Does God Require Of Man?           John 6:29      The Jewish Talmud says, “The whole law was given to Moses in six hundred thirteen precepts.” It was summarized and given to the children of Israel in ten commandments (Ex. 20:1-17). Those ten commandments are, like all the other precepts of the law, holy, just, and good. They reveal something of God’s character […]