Even after we have been justified and adopted, for our salvation to be complete, we must be sanctified and glorified. Jesus is able to do all of this because He lives forever and intercedes on the basis of a sufficient sacrifice.

When we live by faith in Christ, we see life on earth as saturated with covenant blessings that are dwarfed by God's blessing at our death, and then again at our resurrection.

When we live by faith in Christ, we see life on earth as saturated with covenant blessings that are dwarfed by God's blessing at our death, and then again at our resurrection.

Jesus exercises the same glorious authority in His preaching in our churches on the Lord's Days as He did in the sign-accompanied preaching on the Sabbaths in the synagogues of Galilee

As the Lord carries out an eternal plan to give His adopted children infinite and eternal comfort, He exercises the same love and wisdom and power to fill each of their lives with a multitude of other comforts

When God humiliates our idols, we need to be grateful and respond by abandoning them, not trying to -go back to normal- or creating ways to keep them.

God alarms us by His wrath, and beckons us by His mercy-most of all at His cross.

In calamity, God displays His wrath, patiently and persistently provoking fruitless church members to produce fruit or reveal that they are perishing in their sins.

30,000 dead, the military decimated, the economy crippled, liberty evaporated, the high priest dead... but the greatest tragedy of all of it was the departure of the presence of God's glory from among His people.