Holiness and growth in godliness; perseverance of the saints; the Christian's progress, effort, and dependence on the Spirit.
- 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 …
- Exercise of Trials John Newton
And how are you to know experimentally, either your own weakness—or the power, wisdom and grace of God, seasonably and sufficiently afforded—but by frequent and various …
- Knowledge of God vs Fear of Man Ed Welch
A growing knowledge of God displaces the fear of people, and it casts out our tendency to be casual with our secret sins.
- Calvin on Augustine on Humility John Calvin
When a certain rhetorician was asked what was the chief rule in eloquence, he replied, ‘Delivery’; what was the second rule, ‘Delivery’; what was the third rule, …
- 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 …
- Easy thing to be a Christian? Richard Sibbes
It were an easy thing to be a Christian, if religion stood only in a few outward works and duties, but to take the soul to task, and to deal roundly with our own hearts, …
- Tender Heart John Lorimer
It is only true piety which, during a long succession of years, will sustain the heart in tenderness to the poor amid trials and difficulties, and which will uphold the …
- Suffering Exposes Sin Ed Welch
Suffering exposes the sin in our hearts in a way few things can.
When our lives are trouble free, we can confuse personal satisfaction for faith.
- On James 3:1 Alec Moyter
Peter, recognizing that Christens long for a fulfilled experience, a good life, a rich blessing from God, commands any who ‘would love life and see good days’ to ‘keep …
- Truly Biblical Sanctification John Murray
Truly biblical sanctification has no affinity with the self-complacency which ignores or fails to take into account the sinfulness of every lack of conformity to the …
- Character of a Deacon John Lorimer
Animated by the spirit of his office, and acting out the character which the counsels of the Word imply, [a deacon] will not be haughty, or harsh, or suspicions, he will …
- Contest Among Christians Richard Sibbes
It would be a good contest amongst Christians, one to labour to give no offence, and the other to labour to take none.
The best men are severe to themselves, tender over …
- Growth of a Believer John Newton
Remember, the growth of a believer is not like a mushroom, but like an oak, which increases slowly indeed but surely.
Many suns, showers, and frosts, pass upon it before …
- What Will It Profit a Man? John Newton
What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary, if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, …
- Hears Me My Cattercisum J. Gresham Machen
It seems to me that sundays get nicer and nicer becous Poply reads me in pilgrime progres and hears me my cattercisum, and I like it very much.
- Restraint on a Christian J. Gresham Machen
The Christian is restrained from doing certain things. True!
But he is restrained from doing those things not in order that he may do nothing at all, but in order that he …
- Sin’s Footprint Ian Hamilton
One of sin’s ‘fingerprints’ is its consuming passion to praise self.
- Impatience in my Spirit John Newton
I have felt an impatience in my spirit, utterly unsuitable to my state as a sinner and a beggar, and to my profession of yielding myself and all my concerns to the Lord’s …
- Laying Up Treasures in Heaven William Greenhill
Men can endure any difficulty and danger to get estates, but they will hardly endure anything to get heaven, grace, or an interest in Christ.
- 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 …
- Footsteps of Christ John Owen
Meekness, patience, forbearance, and forgiveness, hiding, covering, removing of offenses—these are the footsteps of Christ.
Do you see your brother fail? Pity him. Does …
- The Early Christians J. Gresham Machen
The early Christians, to the astonishment of their neighbors, lived a strange new kind of life—a life of honesty, of purity and of unselfishness.
- Little Sins J. Gresham Machen
It’s through the ’little sins’ that Satan gains an entrance into our lives.
- Jesus Must Increase James Dennison
Your maneuvering for power, for influence, for position, for status, for wealth, for reputation of the present is a contradiction of the eschatological nature of life in …
- 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 …
- Hasty and Censorious Spirit John Newton
Surely much of that hasty and censorious spirit, too often observable in young converts, arises from their having, as yet—a very imperfect acquaintance with the …
- Power of Sin is Broken John Murray
In his finished work Christ did something once for all respecting the power of sin and it is the virtue of this victory which he secured that the power of sin is broken …
- Paul’s Fervency in Prayer Donald A. Carson
[Paul’s] unaffected fervency in prayer is not whipped-up emotionalism but the overflow of his love for his brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus. That means that if we are …
- 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.
- Not Perfect, Just Forgiven? Richard Gaffin
Christians are not yet perfect, but in Christ, God has forgiven them and has begun a good work in them.
- Warfield to Franklin George Whitefield
As you have made a pretty considerable progress in the mysteries of electricity, I would now humbly recommend to your diligent unprejudiced pursuit and study the mystery …
- The Graces of a Good Deacon RC Reed
To avoid friction between members, to promote happy pastorates, and to develope the grace of liberality, nothing is more important than a good deacon, one who can be …
- The Second Birth Leonhard Goppelt
Even in anthropological perspective, the basis for being a Christian is not a decision or the appropriation of the commandment, but the second birth established in God’s …
- Serious Meditation on Truth Thomas Brooks
Remember, it is not a hasty reading, but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bees …
- Strange Rugged Providences Thomas Brooks
As all the stones that were about Stephen’s ears did but knock him the closer to Christ, the corner-stone—so all the strange rugged providences that we meet with, they …
- DeYoung on Hospitality Kevin DeYoung
Opening our homes takes time, but it doesn’t have to take over our lives. Christian hospitality has much more to do with good relationships than with good food. There is …
- 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.
- Beale on Baptism G.K. Beale
In this light, to think that a major people group—infants—is excluded from entry into the new-covenant community seems to go against the grain of the otherwise wider span …
- Spiritual Mindedness John Owen
Let no one suppose that spiritual mindedness comes accidentally. It is just as likely for poor person to expect to be rich without effort, before weak person to be strong …
- 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.
- Little in Our Own Eyes John Newton
Oh! to be little in our own eyes! This is the ground-work of every grace; this leads to a continual dependence upon the Lord Jesus; this is the spirit which He has …
- Truly Evangelical Piety Geerhardus Vos
May God by his Spirit maintain among us, and through our instrumentality revive around us, that truly evangelical type of piety which not merely tolerates facts and …
- What are all your beloveds to this Beloved? John Owen
You that are yet in the flower of your days, full of health and strength, and, with all the vigor of your spirits, do pursue some one thing, some another, consider, I …
- Frequent and Various Trials John Newton
And how are you to know experimentally either your own weakness or the power, wisdom, and grace of God, seasonably and sufficiently afforded, but by frequent and various …
- Sanctification of Sleep Donald A. Carson
Our physical existence is tied up to our spiritual well-being, to our mental outlook, to our relationships with others, including our relationship with God. Sometimes the …
- Achieving Holiness Douglas Moo
Holiness of life, then, is achieved neither by our own unaided effort – the error of ‘moralism’ or ’legalism’ – nor by the Spirit apart from our participation – as some …
- Not to Us Charles Spurgeon
Yet it is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-‘Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name be glory.’ It is a lesson which …
- Mothers with a Triumphant Faith Joseph Hopper
That mother through the years had endured and won in the Christian race, who had a supreme desire and joy in having her children to bear the message glorious, wrote me …
- Glory of Christ John Owen
The glory of Christ is also seen in the stability and security that is given to the whole new creation. The first creation was glorious. Everything depended on God under …