Walk in humility . . . take heed of pride. It is a deadly poison that spoils and kills all where it comes; so dangerous that another poison was used as a counter-poison to preserve St. Paul from it. And we are never more in danger […]
Gregory Nazianzen said of Athanasius that he was both a lodestone and an adamant: a lodestone for the sweetness of his disposition, and an adamant for the invincibleness of his resolution. When the emperor Valens promised Basil great preference if he would subscribe to the Arian […]
Nothing will rob you of the joy of God’s grace like a low view of God, of Christ’s sacrifice, and of the glory of heaven. To set our minds on the things above, to lay up our treasures in heaven and not on the earth, and […]
In our last post, we considered how Christ’s righteousness relates to our rewards. It is ultimately a subject concerning degrees of glory in heaven. It articulates a critical answer to the discussion concerning the relationship and place of justification and works, or faith and rewards. Jonathan […]
The thought of ‘rewards’ for the undeserving seems contradictory. And it is, if rewards and ill desert are conceived on the same horizon. The ground of our salvation and our good works are as insulated as heaven is from hell. The two shall not be confused […]