Unmerited favour; grace abounding over sin; God's kindness and patience toward the undeserving; the freeness of the gospel.
- God Is Not Wearied by Conferring Kindness John Calvin
God is not like men, so as to be wearied out or exhausted by conferring kindness.
- The Grace of Perception Thomas Brooks
The first remedy against this device of Satan is, To dwell more upon one another’s graces than upon one another’s weaknesses and infirmities. It is sad to consider that …
- Righteousness by Works vs. Doctrine Herman Bavinck
We must remind ourselves that the Catholic righteousness by good works is vastly preferable to a protestant righteousness by good doctrine. At least righteousness by good …
- Law-Gospel Exegesis J. Ligon Duncan
Law-gospel is a wonderful theological category. It’s lousy exegesis. If every command that you find you put in the category of law, and every promise you put in the …
- First Foundation of Righteousness John Calvin
Surely the first foundation of righteousness is the worship of God.
- Is He Not Gracious and Faithful? John Newton
Let us suppose the thing we are most afraid of actually to happen. Can it come a moment sooner, or in any other way, than by His appointment?
Is He not gracious, and …
- Full and Complete and Sufficient Ransom Christopher Love
What is the great reason that so many poor souls are so much cast down for sin, too much dejected under the sight and sense of it?
It is this: because they are afraid to …
- Not My Deserving Johann Heermann
Therefore, kind Jesus, since I cannot pay thee, I do adore thee, and will ever pray thee, think on thy pity and thy love unswerving, not my deserving.
- Whoever is truly humbled will not be easily angry John Newton
Whoever is truly humbled will not be easily angry, will not be positive and easy, will be compassionate and tender to the infirmities of his fellow sinners, know that if …
- Having the Patience of God John Owen
Suppose your God should be angry every time you gave Him cause and struck every time you provoked Him!
When your brother offends you, restrain your heart until you take a …
- Helpless, Unworthy Sinner John Newton
If you can come as a helpless, unworthy sinner, without strength, without righteousness, without any hope but what arises from the worth, work, and word of Christ, this …
- Christ's Specific Grace Gavin Ortlund
[God’s grace] doesn’t merely cover my life as a whole, leaving the details to work out on their own.
Christ meets us again and again in our particular moments of lust, …
- God is Never Weary of Doing Good Thomas Watson
God is never weary of doing us good. Therefore, we should not be weary of serving Him.
- Paul's Willingness to Be Spent Apostle Paul
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls.
- His Sufferings vs. Yours John Newton
But how different were His sufferings—from yours! There is no sting in your rod—nor wrath in your cup!
- We Cannot Be So Evil as He is Good John Newton
Well, when we have said all we can of the aboundings of sin in us, grace still more abounds in Jesus.
We cannot be so evil as He is good. …
In ourselves we have cause to …
- Murray on Regeneration John Murray
If it were not the case that in regeneration we are passive, the subjects of an action of which God alone is the agent, there would be no gospel at all.
For unless God by …
- No Neutrality in Words David Powlison
Some words are destructive, misleading, unnourishing (Eph. 4:29a); others are constructive, timely, true, loving, grace-giving (Eph. 4:15, 29b). None are neutral.
- Be Merciful Jesus
For He is gracious to the ungrateful and evil. Be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.
- Obedience of Gratitude John Owen
Obedience is the best way of showing our gratitude to God for His grace.
- The Patient Guidance of God John Newton
Indeed we may admire His patience towards us.
If we were blind, and reduced to desire a person to lead us, and should yet pretend to dispute with him, and direct him at …
- He Does Not Cease to Plead John Owen
He does not cease to plead on our behalf, despite our continual backsliding (1 John 2:1–2).
- Stay the Course Herman Bavinck
Preservation of the saints is also both gift and task. The New Testament repeatedly admonishes believers to remain faithful, to stay true to their Savior and Lord. At the …
- The Greatest Kindness Matthew Henry
The greatest kindness we can do for those that are fearful and faint-hearted is to pray for them, and so to recommend them to the mighty grace of God.
- The End of Temptation John Newton
One gracious end, therefore, that the Lord has in permitting his people to be tempted, is for the prevention of greater evils, that they may not grow proud or careless, …
- Saints' Greatest Burden John Owen
Many saints have no greater burden in their lives than that their hearts do not constantly delight and rejoice in God.
- Give Me Liberty or? John Newton
I think a heathen said, ‘The day which deprives a man of his liberty, robs him of half his virtues.’ If I was a heathen I should say so too. But the gospel teaches me …
- When Our Faith is Weak Herman Bavinck
When our faith is weak, when we lapse into sin, believers always have the right and the freedom to go with confidence to the throne of grace and plead on the basis of the …
- We Are Prone to Lean Too Hard on Ministers John Newton
The fountain from which your dear pastor obtained the water of life, which he communicated to his congregation—is still full and still flowing; and you are still welcome …
- Communion with Lepers Joe Barron Hopper
Some of the happiest experiences have been in churches where all the members have leprosy… More than once I have served communion to men like this where the bread had to …
- Baptism-Curcifixion Meredith Kline
At the exodus these judgment waters performed both functions, destroying the Egyptian army but delivering the chosen, priestly nation of Israel. Paul identified these …
- The Promise of God’s Word Chad Van Dixhoorn
This is the promise of God’s Word. In spite of our daily failings, in spite of the accusations of our enemies, [Jesus] is there to quieten our consciences, to encourage …
- Does Your Faith Waiver? Chad Van Dixhoorn
Does your faith ever waver? Remember the Holy Spirit, for he too is promised in this covenant that is all of grace. The Spirit will make us ‘willing’ to believe in a …
- Propitiation is the Fruit of Love John Murray
It is one thing to say that the wrathful God is made loving. That would be entirely false. It is another thing to say the wrathful God is loving. That is profoundly true. …
- Unpractical Theology? Edmund Clowney
Some may scorn the comfort and triumph of [1 Peter] as unpractical theology. His answers are answers of faith. But Peter knows that his witness is true, that Jesus Christ …
- Real Sincerity in Religious Matters John Newton
You say, ‘If they be sincere, and fail not for want of diligence and searching, I cannot help thinking that God will not condemn them for an inevitable defect in their …
- A Surgeon's Skill John Newton
If people are satisfied of a surgeon’s skill and prudence, they will not only yield to be cut at his pleasure without pretending to direct him where, or how long he shall …
- Unloose my Stamm'ring Tongue John Newton
When he came, the angels sung, ‘Glory be to God on high;’ / Lord, unloose my stamm’ring tongue, Who should louder sing than I?
- Believers Motive for Law-Keeping G.K. Beale
Instead, true saints should be psychologically motivated to fulfill God’s precepts because they know that God has given them the power to do so.
- Jesus for You G.K. Beale
Jesus’s life, trials, death for sinners, and especially resurrection by the Spirit have launched the fulfillment of the eschatological already-not yet new-creational …
- Christ Gives More Herman Bavinck
Christ gives more than sin took away.
- The Old Testament Revelation of the Messiah Geerhardus Vos
Old Testament Revelation approaches the concept of a personal Messiah very gradually. It sufficed for fallen man to know that through His divine power and grace God would …
- New Things Each Day John Newton
Every new day is filled up with new things, new mercies on the Lord’s part, new ingratitude on mine.
- Kline on Covenant and Election Meredith Kline
When covenant is no longer identified with election and guaranteed blessing, especially when the baptismal sign of incorporation into the covenant is understood as …
- His Infinite and Unchangable Love John Newton
We may well mourn that our love to the Lord is so faint and wavering; but oh! what a cause of joy to know that his love to us is infinite and unchangeable. Our attainment …
- News of a Better World John Newton
Blessed by God for the news of a better world, where there will be no sin, change, nor defect for ever. And let us praise him, likewise, that He has appointed means of …
- An Astonishing Dispensation John Owen
And truly, for sinners to have fellowship with God, the infinitely holy God, is an astonishing dispensation.
- He has dealt bountifully Psalm 13:5, 6 ESV
But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.
- Yahweh Elohim Herman Bavinck
The gnostic and Marcionite disjunction between the Old Testament God of wrath and vengeance and the New Testament God of love and mercy is unknown to Scripture. Yahweh …
- Christ Greater than Adam Herman Bavinck
In Paul we must never overlook the strong emphasis on the superiority of Christ’s gift when compared to the consequence of Adam’s fall.