a journal about life in the shadow of the cross of Christ...
The saints’ delight is in Christ: He is their joy, their crown, their rejoicing, their life, food, health, strength, desire, righteousness, salvation, blessedness: without Him they have nothing; in Him they shall find all things. ‘God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ’ (Galatians 6:14). He has, from [...]
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What looks like (and indeed was) the defeat of Goodness by evil is also, and more certainly, the defeat of evil by Goodness. Overcome there, he was himself overcoming. Crushed by the ruthless power of Rome, he was himself crushing the serpent’s head (Gn 3:15). The victim was the victor, and the cross is still [...]
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He that has light thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God. —John Owen Via: Twitter post by Bob Kauflin
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The Holy Spirit communicates the great, permanent, positive effect of holiness to the souls of believers and he guides and assists them in all acts works and duties of holiness…Herein, consists the image of God whereunto our natures are repaired by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, whereby we are made conformable unto God, [...]
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People seem to forget that all Christ’s sufferings on the cross were fore-ordained. They did not come on Him by chance or accident—they were all planned, counseled, and determined from all eternity. The cross was foreseen in all the provisions of the everlasting Trinity for the salvation of sinners. In the purposes of God the [...]
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If justification is by faith alone, how can we apply James 2:24, which says a person is justified by what he does, not his faith alone? That question is not critical only today, but it was in the eye of the storm we call the Protestant Reformation that swept through and divided the Christian church [...]
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My reader, are you a religious skeptic? do you disbelieve the truth of Christ’s resurrection from the grave? Ponder, I beseech you, honestly, calmly, this, one fact – the willingness of the apostles to suffer loss, persecution, and death for their belief of this truth. Who was it that supported these apostles in the fiery [...]
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I have really enjoyed listening to the new CD by Gregory D. Wilbur entitled My Cry Ascends: New Parish Psalms which was published by Ligonier Ministries. I like all the songs but my favorite is “Lord Jesus Think On Me.” It is a beautiful prayer that was written by Synesius of Cyrene (c. 375-430 AD) [...]
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Today is my mother’s birthday. I am a very fortunate man because I happen to have the best mother in the world. In honor of her birthday I created a few videos from 35mm color slides and photographs taken by my grandfather. Today I uploaded them to this site and they are now available under [...]
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One of the sweetest statements from the lips of Jesus is this: ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world’ (Matthew 25:34b). There is a plan of God designed for your salvation. It is not an afterthought or an attempt to correct a mistake. Rather, [...]
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