Dr. Timothy Keller – What Motivates Obedience to God (1 Peter 1:13–21)
13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. 14 As obedient children, do not conform to the evil...
View ArticleDr. Tim Keller – Christ of our House (Ephesians 2:14-22)
14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, 15 by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His...
View ArticleThomas Boston – The Humble and the Proud
Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud “— Prov. 16:19. Could men once be brought to believe that it is better to have their minds bend to the...
View ArticleJ. C. Ryle – The Rulers of this World Seldom Friendly to God (Matt. 2:13-23)
Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you,...
View ArticleStuart Sacks – God’s Sovereignty and Old Testament Names for God
(Excerpt from the outstanding book Our Sovereign God ed James M. Boice) Personal names in the Old Testament were designed to communicate something distinctive about the individual or his...
View ArticleWilhelmus à Brakel – The Perseverance of the Saints
Having considered sanctification, growth in grace, and its decline due to spiritual maladies, it is necessary that we add to this a consideration of the perseverance of the saints in grace. When...
View ArticleJ. C. Ryle – Justification and Sanctification: How Do They Differ?
I now propose to consider, in the last place, the distinction between justification and sanctification. Wherein do they agree, and wherein do they differ? This branch of our subject is one of great...
View ArticleJ. C. Ryle – 5 Marks of Repentance
Repentance is a thorough change of person’s natural heart, upon the subject of sin. We are all born in sin. We naturally love sin. We take to sin, as soon as we can act and think—just as the bird...
View ArticleJohn Calvin – The Law Drives Us Into Despair and Moves Us to Seek Grace
But, in order that our guilt may arouse us to seek pardon, it behooves us, briefly, to know how by our instruction in the moral law we are rendered more inexcusable. If it is true that in the law we...
View ArticleJohn Calvin – How Do Believers Have Need of the Law
BELIEVERS HAVE NEED OF THE LAW The third and principal use, which pertains more closely to the proper purpose of the law, finds its place among believers in whose hearts the Spirit of God already...
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