For the Lord's Day - Fourth Sunday of Lent

"There is only one sense in which it may be said that Jesus “died to sin” and that is he bore its penalty, since “the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). Having paid sin’s wage (or borne its penalty) by dying, he has risen to a new life. So have we, by union with him. We too have died to sin, not in the sense that we have personally paid its penalty (Christ has done that in our place, instead of us), but in the sense that we have shared in the benefit of his death. Since the penalty of sin has been borne, and its debt paid, we are free from the awful burden of guilt and condemnation. And we have risen with Christ to a new life, with the sin question finished behind us.” John Stott, The Cross of Christ, p. 270

For the Lord's Day - Second Sunday of Lent

“Our substitute, then, who took our place and dies our death on the cross, was neither Christ alone (since that would make him a third party thrust in between God and us), nor God alone (since that would undermine the historical incarnation) but God in Christ, who was truly and fully both God and man and who on that account was uniquely qualified to represent both God and man and to mediate between them. If we speak only of Christ suffering and dying, we overlook the initiative of the Father. If we speak only of God suffering and dying, we overlook the mediation of the Son.”

~ John Stott, The Cross of Christ, p. 156.

For the Lord's Day - First Sunday in Lent

“… man is alienated from God by sin and God is alienated from man by wrath. It is in the substitutionary death of Christ that sin is overcome and wrath averted, so that God can look on man without displeasure and man can look on God without fear. Sin is expiated and God is propitiated.”  ~ David Wells, The Search for Salvation

For the Lord's Day

“To believe in the Triune God of Scripture who speaks and acts in history requires an act of apostasy from the assumed creed of our age.” Michael Horton, The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way p.15

A celebration of the life of a great Christian

 One hundred years ago this day (January 30, 1912), Francis August Schaeffer IV was born. Though not as well known as he was when he died from lymphoma in 1984, Schaeffer’s influence is still being felt in evangelicalism.

 Francis Schaeffer at 100
HT: JT

For the Lord's Day

"I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am."  — John Newton

For the Lord's Day

“The salvation of man consists in knowing, and serving God. Such is our God who not only is all-sufficient in Himself but who with His all-sufficiency can fill and saturate the soul to such an overflowing measure that it has need of nothing else but to have God as its portion.” — Wilehlmus à Brakel, The Christian’s Reasonable Service, 1:91