O LORD, Pardon Chris Cunningham For thy name’s sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great. (Psalm 25:11) The fact that David’s sin was great might seem a strange argument to set forth to God as a reason for forgiving it. It might seem more properly a reason not to forgive it. Certainly […]
(extract) The FORGIVING Spirit of the Lord’s Prayer. Octavius Winslow “just as we have forgiven those who have sinned against us.” Matthew 6:12 To forgive, it has been remarked, is divine. If the forgiveness of sin is the sole prerogative of God, the highest and most gracious gift of heaven, then, man’s forgiveness of the wrong […]
Hope in Christ alone –John Newton If there is any grace in me, God put it there. “Twas grace that set me apart in distinguishing love before the stars were made. “Twas grace that set me apart from the mass of mankind; was grace that brought me safe this far, and grace will lead me […]
THE WILLING SERVANT (extract) Henry Law written in 1855 originally called the Gospel in Exodus. “But the slave may plainly declare, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I would rather not go free.’ If he does this, his master must present him before God. Then his master must take him to the […]
The life-boat of free grace! (James Smith, “The Complaint!” 1864) “I am cast down!” And why are you cast down? “My heart is burdened with a sense of my short-comings! Every duty I perform is so imperfect. Every purpose I form is so soon frustrated. Every hope of seeing better days is so soon beclouded. My heart is so fearfully […]
Can we forget such mighty grace? Spurgeon’s book, “The Saint and His Savior” Experience of the love, tenderness, and faithfulness of our Lord Jesus Christ will weld our hearts to him. The very thought of the love of Jesus towards us is enough to inflame our holy passions, but experience of it heats the furnace […]
The Spirit’s work in salvation by Spurgeon The Holy Spirit lays bare his heart, lets him see the loathsome cancer that is there eating away his life, uncovers to him all the blackness and defilement of that sink of hell– the human heart; and then the man stands aghast– “I never thought I was like […]
The essential difference between false and true religion is this: All false religion makes salvation to be ultimately dependent upon and determined by the worth, work, or will of the sinner; whereas true religion declares, with Jonah, “Salvation is of the Lord!” In its planning, in its purchase, in its performance, in its preservation, and […]
“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.” Romans 8:2 The interpretation we propose for the adoption of the reader is that which regards the “law of the Spirit of life,” as describing the gospel of Christ, frequently denominated a “law”—and emphatically […]
Christ Made Sin For Us — 2 Corinthians 5:21 In order to save me, the Lord Jesus Christ was made to be sin for me. The Son of God voluntarily took upon himself that horrible, ugly, vile, ignominious thing which he most hates — sin. O my soul, be forever astonished! The God-man became sin […]