The Christian Journey. Life is a journey, often a short one, and always uncertain. But there is another journey. The believer is traveling through a waste howling wilderness, to another and a glorious region, where ineffable delight and happiness await us. The road is narrow, the entrance strait, so strait that thousands miss it and […]
J.C.Philpot “Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.” Acts 14:22 The very word “confirm” implies that the souls of Christ’s disciples need strengthening. If there were no temptations to try, no sharp sorrows to grieve, […]
The religion which I want J.C.Philpot I am quite sick of modern religion—it is such a mixture, such a medley, such a compromise. I find much, indeed, of this religion in my own heart, for it suits the flesh well—but I would not have it so, and grieve it should be so. The religion which […]
The religion which I want J.C.Philpot I am quite sick of modern religion—it is such a mixture, such a medley, such a compromise. I find much, indeed, of this religion in my own heart, for it suits the flesh well—but I would not have it so, and grieve it should be so. The religion which […]
(Octavius Winslow) There is much indeed in ourselves of which we have reason truly to be ashamed, and to be filled with profound self abhorrence. We have need to be ashamed . . . of our unbelief; of our low thoughts of the Savior; of our little love to God; of our slow advance in […]
THE GOSPEL OF GOD’S GRACE by Don Fortner– “However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me– the task of testifying to THE GOSPEL OF GOD’S GRACE.” Acts 20:24 Grace is the solitary source from which the goodwill, […]
This wily devil! (Joseph Philpot, “Daily Words for Zion’s Wayfarers”) What a foe to one’s peace is one’s own spirit! What shall I call it? It is often an infernal spirit. Why? Because it bears the mark of Satan upon it. The pride of our spirit, the presumption of our spirit, the hypocrisy of our […]
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 […]