Jesus’ actions are not primarily a picture of salvation. Rather, even the work of redemption is at its heart a revealing of God’s glory.
Read MoreGo where you will, your soul shall not sleep sound but in Christ's bosom.
Read MoreGod saw meet, that the same world which was the stage of man’s fall and ruin, should also be the stage of his redemption. We read often of his coming into the world to save sinners, and of God’s sending him into the world for this purpose. It was needful that he should come into this sinful, miserable, undone world, in order to restore and save it.
Read MoreAll people that on earth do dwell,
Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice;
Him serve with fear, His praise forth tell,
Come ye before Him and rejoice.
We must just take the bare Word of God, believe it, submit to it, and act upon it.
Read MoreOur Father is in the secret place. Then we shall find Him in the inwardness of a recollected spirit, in the stillness of a heart united to fear His name.
Read MoreI neither can nor will retract anything; for it cannot be either safe or honest for a Christian to speak against his conscience. Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.
Read MoreIn our upcoming book, The Sermons of Behold Your God: The Weight of Majesty, Dr. John Snyder summarizes 5 five key realities to keep in mind as we study the character of God.
Read MoreOh, speak to him! Thou knowest how to speak
A word in season to weary ones,
And he is weary now.
O Lord, the depths of a man's conscience lie exposed before your eyes. Could anything remain hidden in me, even though I did not want to confess it to you? In that case I would only be hiding you from myself, not myself from you.
Read MoreLet us learn that knowledge is the chief thing in religion, though we must not make it an idol. Most wicked men are what they are because they are ignorant. Godly people are often described in Scripture by one single phrase: “They know God.”
Read MoreEven if others daily mistake your words, He understands your thought, and is not this infinitely better? He Himself, your ever-loving, ever-present Father, understands. He understands perfectly just what and just when others do not.
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