No Hidden Sin

Do not expect God to cover what you are not willing to uncover.

Wycliffe on Absolution

There is no greater heresy for a man than to believe that he is absolved from sin if he gives money, or because a priest lays his hand on his head and ...

Life after Repentance

All of us, perhaps, are too ready, when our behaviour turns out to have appalling consequences, to rush out and hang ourselves. Sometimes we do worse, ...

That Grace May Abound

We need not "sin that grace may abound." We are sinners and need only to confess that grace may abound.

Dramatic Conversion

All Sins Swept Away:

A slave describes her delayed but dramatic conversion.

Jarena Lee (1783-c.1850) was one of the outstanding preachers in the African ...

Mercy on the Church

Nothing could more surely convince me of God's unending mercy than the continued existence on earth of the church.

Spurgeon's Conversion

"I was years and years upon the brink of hell--I mean in my own feeling. I was unhappy, I was desponding, I was despairing. I dreamed of hell. My ...

Pardon and Love

We pardon in the degree that we love.

Resurrection, not Bookkeeping

You're worried about permissiveness--about the way the preaching of grace seems to say it's okay to do all kinds of terrible things as long as ...

My Log, Your Speck

I can truthfully say that I am slow to see the blemishes of fellow beings, being myself full of them. And, therefore, being in need of their charity, ...