George Whitefield – An End Worthy
These, these are the precious truths, which a scoffing world would fain rally or ridicule us out of. To produce this glorious change, this new creation, the glorious Jesus left his Father’s bosom. For...
View ArticleJonathan Edwards – The Primary Inducement to Humble Love
The gospel yet further tends to lead us to humble exercises of love as it leads us to love Christ as one that was crucified for our sins. Christ’s being crucified is a great argument for the humility...
View ArticleJ.C. Ryle – He is With Us!
What stronger consolation could believers desire than this? Whatever happens, they at least are never completely friendless and alone. Christ is ever with them. They may look into the grave, and say...
View ArticleCharles Spurgeon – A Prayer for When You Read Your Bible
May God, in his infinite mercy, when you read your Bibles, pour into your souls the illuminating rays of the Sun of Righteousness, by the agency of the ever- adorable Spirit; then you will read to...
View ArticleThe Letter to Diognetus: O Sweet Exchange!
But when our wickedness had reached its height, and it had been clearly shown that its reward, punishment and death, was impending over us; and when the time had come which God had before appointed...
View ArticleJonathan Edwards – The Resurrection Power of Christ Exerted in Our Hearts
Gracious affections arise from those operations and influences which are spiritual, and that the inward principle from whence they flow, is something divine, a communication of God, a participation of...
View ArticleJonathan Edwards – How the Resurrection Was Part of the Success of Christ’s...
Indeed Christ’s resurrection (and so his ascension) was part of the success of what Christ did and suffered in his humiliation. For though Christ did not properly purchase redemption for himself, yet...
View ArticleGeerhardus Vos – Jesus as the Center of God’s Work in the World
Most clearly of all the theological genius of Paul can be seen at work in the manner in which he subsumes the entire saving work of God under his conception of the person of Christ. It would be...
View ArticleJonathan Edwards – The Resurrection of Christ is the Most Joyful Event That...
This resurrection of Christ is the most joyful event that ever came to pass; because hereby Christ rested from the great and difficult work of purchasing redemption, and received God’s testimony, that...
View ArticleGeerhardus Vos – How Important is the Resurrection of Jesus?
As a fact, and that not lacking doctrinal explanation, it is, next to the cross, the outstanding event of redemptive history. But Paul has first made it a focus of fundamental Christian teaching and...
View ArticleGeerhardus Vos – The Spirit Produces and Sustains Our New Life in Christ
Coming back to Paul we may adopt for guidance the two-fold aspect in which the eschatological function of the Spirit appears in his teaching. On the one hand the Spirit is the resurrection-source, on...
View ArticleCharles Spurgeon – Look to Jesus
Morning, June 28 “Looking unto Jesus.” Hebrews 12:2 It is ever the Holy Spirit’s work to turn our eyes away from self to Jesus; but Satan’s work is just the opposite of this, for he is constantly...
View ArticleJ.C. Ryle – The Great Confession
15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16 Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17 And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and...
View ArticleStephen Charnock – The Power of Christ’s Blood to Cleanse From All Sin
[Christ's blood] cleanseth from all sin universally. For since it was the blood of so great a person as the Son of God, it is as powerful to cleanse us from the greatest as the least. Had it been the...
View ArticleCharles Spurgeon – The Incarnate Word Lived Upon the Inspired Word!
How instructive to us is this great Truth of God that the Incarnate Word lived on the Inspired Word! It was food to Him, as it is to us and, Brothers and Sisters, if Christ thus lived upon the Word of...
View ArticleCharles Spurgeon – The Spirit Will Make You Love the Word
If the Spirit of God is in you, He will make you love the Word of God and, if any of you imagine that the Spirit of God will lead you to dispense with the Bible, you are under the influence of another...
View ArticleGregory of Nazianzus – Share and Defend This All Your Life
This I give you to share, and to defend all your life, the one Godhead and power, found in the three in unity and comprising the three separately; not unequal, in substances or natures, neither...
View ArticleThomas Goodwin – The Love of Jesus Christ for You
1 Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 2 In my Father ‘s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I...
View ArticleThomas Goodwin – Christ’s Heart Toward Us Even Now
15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us then with confidence draw near...
View ArticleJohn Calvin – In Christ Alone
We see that our whole salvation and all its parts are comprehended in Christ [Acts 4:12]. We should therefore take care not to derive the least portion of it from anywhere else. If we seek salvation,...
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