For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous shall live by faith. (Romans […]
A conversation between Mr. Attentive and Mr. Wiseman from John Bunyan’s Life and Death of Mr. Badman (1680) Attentive: Does not God, by instituting of a day unto holy duties, make great proof how the hearts and inclinations of people do stand to holiness of heart, and a conversation in holy duties? Wiseman: Yes doubtless; […]
by John Calvin (1509-1564) Without the gospel: everything is useless and vain; without the gospel we are not Christians; without the gospel all riches is poverty, all wisdom folly before God; strength is weakness, and all the justice of man is under the condemnation of God. But by the knowledge of the gospel we are: […]
What is your only comfort in life and death? That I am not my own, but belong with body and soul, both in life and in death, to my faithful Saviour Jesus Christ. He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood, and has set me free from all the power […]
by Octavius Winslow (1808-1878) From first to last, from our cradle to our grave, from the earliest pang of sin’s conviction to the lastest thrill of sin’s forgiveness, from earth to heaven, this will be our testimony in all the way the Lord our God has led us in the wilderness – “He has done all […]