“The entrance of your words gives light; it gives understanding unto the simple.” –Psalm 119:130 J.C.Philpot The word “simple” means literally something which is not folded or twisted together. But owing to the treacherous and desperately deceitful heart of man, all, without exception, in a state of nature are the reverse of this. All their […]

Law demands righteousness from men; Grace brings righteousness to men.  Law sentences a living man to death; Grace brings a dead man to life.  Law speaks of what men must do for God; Grace tells of what Christ has done for men.  Law gives a knowledge of sin; Grace puts away sin.  Law brings God […]

Come my friend, let us go to the throne of grace, and put up such petitions as may show that we have honourable views of the riches and bounty of our king. I am but a poor man in the trade of grace; I live from hand to mouth, and procure just enough, as we […]

Go and lay your icy heart upon   His flaming heart of love! (From Octavius Winslow’s, “Christ, the Everlasting Father”) The everlasting love of Christ never veers, never chills, and knows not the shadow of a change. Measuring Christ’s love to us by our love to Him, we often imagine that it must necessarily be […]

Unto you who believe — He is precious! (“Every Day!” Author unknown, 1872) “Unto you who believe — He is precious!” 1 Peter 2:7 It is to unbelievers only, that Christ is “as a root out of a dry ground” — having no form nor loveliness. To those who know Him, and put their trust […]

The Brazen Serpent  “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness (Num. 21:4-9), even so must the Son of man be lifted up” (John 3:14). Preachers are like the pole to which Moses fastened the brazen serpent. Our only function, our only usefulness is to hold up Christ crucified before sinners. The Gospel we […]

It is the blood of Jesus, applied by the Spirit (Octavius Winslow) There is a perpetual proneness to seek our fruitfulness from anything but a close, spiritual, and constant dealing with the cross of Jesus. But as well might we expect the earth to clothe itself with verdure, or the tree to blossom, and the […]

To believe that Jesus is the Christ is to believe that the man, Jesus of Nazareth, is the woman’s promised Seed, the incarnate God, and that by his obedience unto death he actually accomplished all that the Old Testament Scriptures prophesied he would accomplish, He saved his people from their sins!  Pastor Don Fortner A Self Made […]

“If my salvation was so difficult to accomplish that it necessitated the death of Christ, then all my works, all my righteousness of the Law, is good for nothing. How can I buy for a penny what cost a million dollars?” Martin Luther Why must we be born again? “Jesus answered and said unto him, […]

“Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us  from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar  people, zealous of good works.” Titus 2:14 There is no victory over the indwelling power of sin, and there is no pardon for the guilt of sin, but as the soul deals with the blood of […]