What can be likened to the travail of a woman? Is it not the standard of pain in this fallen world, a pain of all pains excelling? Is it not …
Calvinistically Institutional: Have You Done Your Best?
But if forgiveness of sins depends on the conditions to which they bind it, nothing can be more wretched and deplorable than our situation. Contrition they represent as the first …
Vehement Threatening
I know that the world offended (by God’s permission) may kill the body; but God’s majesty offended has power to punish body and soul for ever. His majesty is offended …
God Never Fails: The Salvation and Condemnation of Man
Is God a failure? Is God a liar? Can God be trusted?
Joy to the World! Jesus Has Been Born!
The first twenty-one verses of Luke 2 are quite special to me. Year after year I’d sit at Grandfather’s feet and listen to his deep voice read these words announcing …
Super Savior to the Rescue
It is a trustworthy statement, deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. No superhero even comes close to this truest of heroes. Jesus …
The Work of One
“God saves sinners”; this is the truth revealed by God in his Word as the foundation of all truths pertaining to salvation.
Rick’s Testimony
Fifteen-year-old Rick was on his way to work. As he passed by the local church hall, he saw the minister’s wife come out to the sidewalk. The last person he wanted …
Grafting in Romans 11
“The argument of Romans 9-11 is essentially no different from the argument of Romans 1-3. The gospel is the power of God for salvation first for the Jew and also …