Law and Gospel

(click this link to view the original article) by John M. Frame             It has become increasingly common in Reformed circles, as it has long been in Lutheran circles, to say that the distinction between law and gospel is the key to sound theology, even to say that to differ with certain traditional formulations of [...]

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The Thief on the Cross

by Pastor John Samson   One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!” 40 But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly, for we are receiving [...]

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Hand Over to Christ the Burden of How to Grow in Grace

  This is a very great burden to some earnest people. They go from convention to convention, from one speaker to another, notebook in hand, so eager to get the blessing (as they term it) and often thinking more of the rapture of the gift than of the person of the Giver.  And because they [...]

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The Long War

Foreword:  This is the last installment on the series  from Modern Reformation, Nov./Dec. Vol. 5 No. 6 1996 issue. To see the complete list and full articles, go to ‘Categories’ from the sidebar and choose the section on The Life of A Justified Sinner. – EmmausTrekker   By Dr. Michael S. Horton Everyone knows St. Augustine , that [...]

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Book Review: The Truth About Man

Book Review: The Truth About Man, by Paul Washer At the beginning of his classic Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin heads his very first paragraph thus: “Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God”. This observation is strikingly true, and if one would take the time to discuss the gospel in [...]

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Let Us Not Sleep As Others Do

Foreword:  This is an excerpt from a devotional sermon entitled “The God of Bethel” taken from  Rev. Murdoch Campbell’s book - Everlasting Love – original posted in The Highway website. The full article can be read through this link. EmmausTrekker *     *     *     *     *   We can, dear friends, expect nothing from a godless world [...]

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Stripped of His Peacock Feathers

(by Arthur Pink, “Unworthiness” 1940) GRACE is favor shown to the undeserving and ill-deserving. When Divine grace bestows salvation upon the ill-deserving, it makes them conscious of the infinite favor that has been shown them. Fallen man is naturally proud, self-complacent, and self-righteous. But wherever the miracle of regenerating grace is wrought–all this is reversed. [...]

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Main Difference Between Calvinist and Non-Calvinist View of Saving Grace

The Main Difference Between Calvinist and Non-Calvinist Views of Saving Grace by John Hendryx (from www.reformationtheology.com) Recently I had am exchange on a message board regarding the particulars of Calvinism. Hopefully you find it helpful: Visitor #1: I gave up on Calvinism a long time ago. My response: You mean you gave up on the [...]

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Who Am I … Really?

Foreword:  This is the 4th installment on the series  from Modern Reformation issue of 1996. For other articles uploaded earlier, go to the sidebar – Categories – and choose ‘The Life of a Justified Sinner’ to take you to all articles under this heading.  The exposition below provides a good and clear exegesis of the [...]

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How Spurgeon Learned of Grace

Well can I remember the manner in which I learned the Doctrines of Grace in a single instant. Born as all of us are by nature, an ‘Arminian,’ I still believed the old things I had heard continually from the pulpit, and did not see the Grace of God. When I was coming to Christ, [...]

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