If you have ever wondered about the relationship between the Mosaic Law and the New Testament you might want to go HERE and read what Justin Taylor has to say about David Dorsey’s article, “The Law of Moses and the Christian: A Compromise.”
“God, who is the infinite glorious first-being, embraces them with an entire fatherly love. All the love that ever was in any parents towards children, is but as one drop of the infinite ocean of fatherly love that there is in God unto his people.”
(Jeremiah Burroughs, The Saints’ Happiness, Delivered in Divers Lectures on the [...]
The gospel isn’t one class among many that you’ll attend during your life as a Christian – the gospel is the whole building that all the classes take place in! Rightly approached, all the topics you’ll study and focus on as a believer will be offered to you ‘within the walls’ of the glorious gospel.
(C.J. [...]
If there is anything in life that we should be passionate about, it’s the gospel. And I don’t mean passionate only about sharing it with others. I mean passionate about thinking about it, dwelling on it, rejoicing in it, allowing it to color the way we look at the world. Only one thing can be [...]
What my iniquities have merited is great, but what the piety of the Redeemer has promised to me is far and away greater. My unrighteousness is great, but the righteousness of my Redeemer is much greater.
(Johann Gerhard, Sacred Meditations. Translated by Wade R. Johnston. page 13-14)
Here is a portion of Meditation VI – “Consolation for the penitent from the passion of Christ, especially from Anselm,” by Johann Gerhard from his book Sacred Meditations, translated by Wade R. Johnston:
“I have sinned, Lord, and my sins are many and great beyond measure. I nevertheless refuse to commit that most atrocious sin whereby [...]
Who can describe the constraining power of a love for God? Its majesty and its beauty, who can adequately express? No tongue can tell the heights to which love can uplift us. Love binds us fast to God. Love casts a veil over sins innumerable. There are no limits to love’s endurance, no end to [...]
“I recently challenged a group of confused teenagers and their gay adviser at a public high school. They were seeking the right to congregate on the basis of their homosexuality – to confirm themselves and others as gay in a school-sponsored club. We fought against this on the grounds that the public schools did not [...]
But he who wants to be saved and go to heaven when he dies must think and say: “Have mercy on me, gracious God. I am a poor, sinful being who has merited nothing but wrath. But whether my life was good or evil, I know that I need not doubt that I was baptized [...]
