"Dependence on one’s law keeping and faith in Christ are mutually exclusive. In fact, faith involves a total renunciation of dependence...

"We should avoid preachy self-righteousness because it communicates something opposite to the gospel.  Preachy self-righteousness say...

"Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us." - John Stott

The call to brokenness is a call to openness. It’s an altered vision. It doesn’t mean that our lives enter into a continuous state of disrep...

HT: CFG

"If we do not understand how it is that we as sinners are declared right before a holy God (which is what it means to be “justified”), ...

via Z

"We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace."

"My memory is nearly gone; but I remember two things-- That I am a great sinner, and that Christ is a great Savior." via GOG

"The kingdom of God begins with weakness, relinquishment, giving up our rights to our own life; it begins with admitting that we need a...

"The picture of Christ in the Old Testament can be obscured by veritable whiteout conditions of chronological, sacrificial, architectur...

"God sees us, not as we are in our sin, but as we are in Christ - impeccably righteous."

I found this to be both  succinct  and profound: “Everyone who would obtain the righteousness of God must renounce his own.” For a great...

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. - Gen 1:1 God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. - Gen 1:31 B...

“He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and ...

I'm in a rock mood tonight. Sometimes you just need to hear someone scream into a mic about the infection of sin and how it ruins ever...

Right now you can get another free kindle book by Jerry Bridges entitled The Transforming Power of the Gospel from Amazon. Grab it here....

This is good preaching.

"God doesn't love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because he loves us." 

"Human beings do not discover God; God reveals himself. God is never the revealed object without being the revealed subject."

"The new birth is very, very much more than simply shedding a few tears due to a temporary remorse over sin. It is far more than changi...

"R eal change happens only as we continuously rediscover the gospel. The progress of the Christian life is “not our movement toward the...

As one trespass  led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness  leads to justification and life for  all men.   For as by the...