Idling life away like an idiot or a madman (Joseph Philpot, “The Soul’s Growth in Grace” 1837) When one is spiritually reborn, he sees at one and the same moment . . . God and self, justice and guilt, power and helplessness, a holy law and a broken commandment, eternity and time, the purity of […]
All of Grace by Don Fortner The glory, bliss, and perfection of heaven, whatever it is and all that it includes, is but the consummation of salvation; and it is, in its totality, the gift and work of God’s free and sovereign grace in Christ. In heaven’s glory we shall forever adore and praise our […]
Law manifests what is in men–sin!Grace manifests what is in God–love!Law demands righteousness from men!Grace brings righteousness to men!Law sentences men to death!Grace brings dead men to life!Law speaks of what I must do!Grace tells what Christ has done!Law gives a knowledge of sin!Grace puts away sin! “Oh, to grace how great a debtorDaily I’m […]
Law manifests what is in men–sin! Grace manifests what is in God–love! Law demands righteousness from men! Grace brings righteousness to men! Law sentences men to death! Grace brings dead men to life! Law speaks of what I must do! Grace tells what Christ has done! Law gives a knowledge of sin! Grace puts away […]
“For he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of partition between us.” Ephes. 2:14 Octavius Winslow BEHIND this wall Jesus did once stand, and although thus partially obscured, yet to those who had faith to see Him, dwelling though they were in the twilight of the […]
(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 affected by the cold, chilling atmosphere of our hearts; that when our love […]
John MacDuff “I will heal your backslidings.” —Hosea 14:4 Wandering again! And has He not left me to perish? Stumbling and straying on the dark mountains, away from the Shepherd’s eye and the Shepherd’s fold, shall He not leave the erring wanderer to the fruit of his own ways, and his truant heart to go […]
As your days, so shall your strength be. Deut. 33:25 Octavius Winslow CHRISTIAN, consider this new epoch of time, unfold a new page of your yet unwritten history, with the full, unwavering conviction that God is faithful; that in all the negotiations, transactions, and events of the unknown future, in all the diversified and fluctuating […]
PAID IN FULL! from Spurgeon, “IT IS FINISHED!” (No. 421) The satisfaction which Jesus rendered to the JUSTICE OF GOD was finished! The debt was now, to the last farthing, all discharged. The atonement and propitiation were made once for all, and forever, by the one offering made in Jesus’ body on the tree. There […]
with their great Redeemer, perfected and glorified forever, the only visible evidence of the consequences of sin will be seen on the Redeemer Himself. The wounds inflicted upon Him when He delivered Himself to be crucified as the Substitute for sinners, to suffer, “the Just one for the unjust,” that He might bring them to […]