You must first have Christ himself, before you can partake of those benefits by him.19
True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!
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...
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...
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...
God possesses personal being in a unified, uncreated, eternal, tri-personal manner.
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...
And, with a disregard for other things, he cherished and experienced That blessed communion with God about which he wrote.
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...
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 Christian experience is fellowship with him; the key to Christian growth is by sharing in all the implications of hi...
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.
What the prophets of God did spiritually, the Prophet of God did quite literally and physically.
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...
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...
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.