Classics

“That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” – John 3:6. “And everything will live wherever the river goes.” – Ezek. 47:9 “To be spiritually minded is life and peace.” – Rom. 8:6 “Christ lives in me.” – Gal. 2:20 “But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain…

[In her book, Ascent to the Tribes, veteran missionary Isobel Kuhn describes five “drumbeats” that symbolize essential principles for spiritual growth and and navigating interpersonal conflicts.] . “Living in such unhandy primitive quarters, don’t your earthen vessels ever jar each other?” “What about personality rubs?” There is no easy cure-all answer. We would say with…

The Exchanged Life A Letter from J. Hudson Taylor to his sister, Amelia. CHlNKlANG, October 17th, 1869 MY own dear Sister – So many thanks for your long dear letter … I do not think you have written me such a letter since we have been in China. I know it is with you as…

“All-Sufficient Grace” by John Gill (1697-1771) “My grace is sufficient for thee” (2 Cor. 12:9); the Lord always hears and answers His people sooner or later, in one form or another, though not always in the way and manner they desire; but yet in such a way as is most for His glory and their…

“And so it is written, ‘The first man Adam became a living being.’ The last Adam [Christ] became a life-giving spirit’” (1 Corinthians 15:45). . Jesus is the federal head of his elect [His people]. As in Adam, every heir of flesh and blood has a personal interest, because he is the covenant head and…

“…The life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God…” Galatians 2:20 When the Lord in mercy passed by and saw us in our blood,[1] He first of all said, “Live”; and this He did first, because life is one of the absolutely essential things in…

“HOW TO OVERCOME SIN – SCRIPTURALLY” Charles G. Finney (1792-1875) “Power From on High” In every period of my ministerial life I have found many professed Christians in a miserable state of bondage, either to the world, the flesh, or the Devil. But surely this is no Christian state, for the apostle has distinctly said:…

THE BELIEVER’S DELIVERANCE SHOWN IN ROMANS Chapters 5-8 (originally published by Overcomer Literature Trust) CHAPTER 1: ON ROMANS chapter 5 From Death to Life The whole Epistle of Paul to the Romans is briefly announced in chapter 1, as ” the Gospel of God “, and its structure is simple enough, for there are three…

Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. “If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold they are become new” (2 Cor. 5:17). The Cross terminates the first creation, and out of death there is brought a new creation…

[This is an example of the traditional evangelical view —that the moral law is not cancelled in the N. T.] It has been said that every unregenerate sinner has the heart of a Pharisee. This is true; and it is equally true that every unregenerate sinner has the heart of an Antinomian. This is the…