“My grace is sufficient for you,  for my power is made perfect in weakness.�  'Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses,  so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.  For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses,  insults, hardships, persecutions, and cala...

The following was included in this morning's Grace Gems e-mail: Letter to a Dying Teenager (Excerpt from a letter of Legh Richmond to his dying teenage son, 1824) My ever dear son, You are never out of my thoughts -- but there is an eye which beholds and watches over you, in a way that I cannot do. ...

Here is a letter from a woman who truly understood the sovereignty and goodness of God in the midst of her trial. Her husband, the great Puritan preacher, Christopher Love, was falsely accused and sentenced to death. His wife wrote this letter to him just before his scheduled execution. July 14, 165...

by Dan Phillips Today I'll be casting my vote for president (among other things). Many factors go into my decision, and these elections have consequences. It could be argued that today's election is unusually fraught with consequences. But it casts my mind back to another election, a vastly differen...

Once upon a time, I wrote a post about whether or not people who never hear the gospel, read the gospel, or in some way find out about the gospel, go to hell. I answered that yes, they perish without hope. Of all the posts I've written, I have gotten more 'late' comments on it than any other. Mostly...

“Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evil doers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation� –...

Please read James White excellent post today; it is a powerful article under the title, "God Owes Us Nothing" - which, I believe, gives helpful insight to this post below. Reprobation is the antithesis to election and necessarily follows from it. If God does not elect a person, He rejects him. If Go...

Go read "Real Freedom in Jesus" now. May the Lord give us all such churches in our times of need....

“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse c...

In a word? Yes. Most people today, including a growing number of those calling themselves "Christians", believe that there are "many paths to god as you know him". Part of the reason, I think, is because they have mistakenly projected the American constitutional right of religious freedom right into...