“If you love me, you will keep my commandments” —John 14:15 Keeping Christ’s commandments is the best test of love to Christ. This is a lesson of vast importance and one that needs continually pressing on the attention of Christians. It is not talking about religion, […]
Jonathan Edwards patently modeled the importance of resolutions in the aid of deliberate living—a life disciplined in the graces of Christ. His first resolution reads: Resolved, That I will do whatsoever I think to be most to the glory of God, and my own good, profit, […]
Whenever I feel that I have sinned, and desire to overcome that sin for the future, the devil at the same time comes to me and whispers, “How can you be a pardoned person and accepted with God while you sin in this way?” If I […]
Love is not toleration of evil. Love is good. It is not amoral. True love does not blur the eternal distinctions of right and wrong. It is not a feeling indifferent to goodness and evil. Love rejoices and love discriminates; it is the object of love’s […]
God does not love because we need love; we need love because God is love. We are creatures of love, created for love because we are created for God. We were created to glorify God and enjoy Him forever, and that enjoyment consists of increasing delight […]