The Son of God took our nature and came in the likeness of sinful flesh (Rom. 8:3) in order to exchange places with Adam, so that His obedience and righteousness might for our sakes be exchanged for A...
And, with a disregard for other things, he cherished and experienced That blessed communion with God about which he wrote.
Confessional orthodoxy coupled with a view of a heavenly Father whose love is conditioned on his Son’s suffering, and further conditioned by our repentance, leads inevitably to a restriction in the pr...
Matthew 22:4 (Everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast), he addresses the issue of those to whom the offer is made: It is not one or two, or some few that are called, not the great only, nor the...
The heart of the Christian life is the crucified and risen Christ; the heart of the Christian experience is fellowship with him; the key to Christian growth is by sharing in all the implications of hi...
The offer of the gospel is to be made not to the righteous or even the repentant, but to all. There are no conditions that need to be met in order for the gospel offer to be made.
This is precisely why the cry, Abba! Father, is so significant. It expresses, at a point of intense need, an instinct that is absent from the unbeliever’s consciousness. At best such a person may (and...
This is thought to be Jesus’s best-loved parable, usually because our eyes are on the prodigal and his father. But as with jokes, so with parables: there is a principle in both of end stress. The punc...
You must first have Christ himself, before you can partake of those benefits by him.19
Pastors need themselves to have been mastered by the unconditional grace of God. From them the vestiges of a self-defensive pharisaism and conditionalism need to be torn. Like the Savior they need to...
Before all time; prior to all worlds; when there was nothing outside of God Himself; when the Father, Son, and Spirit found eternal, absolute, and unimaginable blessing, pleasure, and joy in Their hol...
Living in the Spirit means a daily commitment to please Christ and not to please self.
Love empowers the engine; law guides the direction. They are mutually interdependent. The notion that love can operate apart from law is a figment of the imagination. It is not only bad theology; it i...
Spiritual growth is measured not only by external indications but by the amount of opposition which has to be overcome in order to express them.
The gospel is designed to deliver us from this lie. For it reveals that behind and manifested in the coming of Christ and his death for us is the love of a Father who gives us everything he has: first...
The message of the incarnate Christ is glorious indeed, but it must never be severed from the message of the indwelling Christ. He who came for us as a baby now dwells in us as the Lord of glory throu...
Third, hear our loss of focus on the gospel in our songs. This is no comment on musical styles and tastes, but simply an observation about the lyrical content of much that is being sung in churches to...
Thus the essence of legalism is rooted not merely in our view of law as such but in a distorted view of God as the giver of his law.
When we see salvation whole—its every single part is found in Christ, we must beware lest we derive the smallest drop from somewhere else.
Can you take in what you have overheard in the High Priestly Prayer of John 17? It is like a light momentarily switched on in a darkened room and then extinguished. Did you really see such treasures?...
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