And he watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and he protected me, and consoled me as a father would his son. Therefore, indeed, I c...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
You must first have Christ himself, before you can partake of those benefits by him.19
This same distortion appears when the gospel is preached to the natural man. Boston was all too familiar with the instinct of the awakened individual to say, I will now try much harder, and I will do...
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...
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.
The heart of the Christian life is the crucified and risen Christ; the heart of the Christin experience is fellowship with him; the key to Christian growth is by sharing in all the implications of his...
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...
God possesses personal being in a unified, uncreated, eternal, tri-personal manner.
Fast-forward to Calvary and the coming of the Spirit. As Moses ascended Mount Sinai and brought down the Law on tablets of stone, now Christ has ascended into the heavenly Mount, but in contrast to Mo...
Faith and repentance are not static, the decision of a moment; they are the lifelong realities of a new heart (8:10; 10:16).
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...