If I insist on knowing exactly what God is doing and what He plans to do with my future, if I demand to understand His ways with me in the past, I can never be content until I am equal with God.
This is the key to the enjoyment of assurance precisely because assurance is our assurance that he is a great Savior and that he is ours.
These considerations give us some clues as to why legalism and antinomianism are, in fact, nonidentical twins that emerge from the same womb. Eve
Inconsistent Christian living leads to lack of assurance. At least, it leads to a lack of true assurance (although, alas, not necessarily to a lack of self-assurance). Where there is no actual obedien...
Failure to deal with the presence of sin can often be traced back to spiritual amnesia – forgetting our new, true, real identity. As a believer, I am someone who has been delivered from the dominion o...
Sincerity on its own is always inadequate before God. But faith without it is impossible.
Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.
So long as Jesus Christ is there, in heaven before God for us, our salvation will last.
The Marrow Controversy raised a major question about how the gospel is to be preached. But the answer to that question depends on our answer to a more fundamental one: What is the gospel? Contemporary...
Our problem, like Jonah's, does not lie in the parts of Scripture we find difficult to understand. Like him, we turn away from the word of the Lord that we do understand. We do not read it, we do not...
True Christian liberty, unlike the various freedom or liberation movements of the secular world, is not a matter of demanding the rights we have.
As the early church fathers delighted in saying, Christ took what was ours so that we might receive what was His.
An inability to encourage someone else is usually rooted in an absorptionwith self that is blind to the needs or gifts of others, or a pride that cannot bring itself to praise God's grace in them.
The Church’s Confession of Faith remained unaltered. But it would be naïve scholarship that extrapolated from what was professed to what was preached and indeed from what was preached to what was poss...
For whenever we make the warrant to believe in Christ to any degree dependent upon our subjective condition, we distort it. Repentance, turning from sin, and degrees of conviction of sin do not consti...
These considerations give us some clues as to why legalism and antinomianism are, in fact, nonidentical twins that emerge from the same womb. Eve’s rejection of God’s law (antinomianism) was in fact t...
The fruit of the Spirit is love. But love is the most costly of fruits.
So we are Ephesians 2:15–16 Christians: the ceremonial law is fulfilled. We are Colossians 2:14–17 Christians: the civil law distinguishing Jew and Gentile is fulfilled. And we are Romans 8:3–4 Christ...
The human heart wrote Calvin, has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood lurks, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.
Thus, for example, fruitful Christian service will encourage assurance; we recognize the work of the Spirit creating new desires and dispositions. We
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