Crumbs from the Master's Table

A couple months back now I published a post titled: "The Application of Redemption." That title comes from the fifth chapter in Th...

"A Christian perhaps may think, because he does not see God's smiling face, God will not hear him. This is a mistake. 'I said i...

In the last post from Thomas Watson's justly famous  A Body of Divinity  I sought to introduce a portion of the book and its...

The title above comes from the fifth chapter in Thomas Watson's magnificent and best-known book: A Body of Divinity . I have been readin...

"To take hold of the Son and to believe in Him with the heart as the gift of God causes God to reckon that faith, however imperfect it ...

Batter my heart, three-personed God . . . Take me to you, imprison me, for I, Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste...

Speaking of the righteousness of faith that God imputes to us through Christ apart from works, Luther says this of its surpassing worth: C...

The famous Rom. 6:23 reads: "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (tr...

Our baby boy is going to be baptized next weekend at College Church in Wheaton. We're looking forward to his being baptized into Christ ...

Ferguson on the structure of John Owen's thought about the ministry of the Spirit of Christ to the believer: The Spirit brings us into...

There has always been an Israel within Israel. That is to say, a true Israel within an Israel in name only. So argues the apostle Paul, for ...

"The sum of all those good things in this life, and the life to come, which are purchased for the church is the Holy Spirit." —J...

"Grace in the soul is the Holy Ghost acting in the soul, and there communicating his own holy nature." —Jonathan Edwards,  Ethic...

C. S. Lewis: Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to re-build that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He's ...

Packer: The notion which the phrase "penal substitution" expresses is that Jesus Christ our Lord, moved by a love that was deter...

"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you." —C. S. Lewis, "On Fo...

Lewis: Real forgiveness means looking steadily at the sin, the sin that is left over without any excuse, after all allowances have been ma...

"A Christian spirit and a gospel spirit are the same. That is the spirit to which the Christian revelation tends." —Jonathan Edw...

In the sixth sermon of his famous sermon series on 1 Corinthians 13— Charity and Its Fruits —Jonathan Edwards preached on verses 4–5 and hum...

In The Apostolic Preaching of the Cross , Leon Morris argues cogently concerning the redemption-language background for the usage in the Ne...