“A very strong proof of this destruction of death and its conquest by the cross is supplied by a present fact, namely this. All the disciples of Christ despise death; they take the offensive against it and, instead of fearing it, by the sign of the cross and by faith in Christ trample on it as on something dead. Before the divine sojourn of the Savior, even the holiest of men were afraid of death, and mourned the dead as those who perish....

“Since the days of John. I have no doubt that Christ speaks honorably of the majesty of the Gospel on this ground, that many sought after it with warm affection: for as God had raised up John to be the herald of the kingdom of His son, so the Spirit infuses such efficacy into his doctrine, that it entered deeply into the hearts of men and kindled that zeal. It appears, therefore, that the Gospel, which comes forward in a manner so sudden...

“Luther, who through the church’s excommunication was practically declared a heretic, was invited to Worms by the Emperor who had been pressured by a few princes. Both the church and Emperor wanted Luther to recant his teachings while he was there. The princes who supported Luther hoped that through the forthcoming events the political power of Rome over Germany would be weakend. Luther’s powerful sovereign, Elector Friedrich...

    Musings, soul searching, and defense of Christ upon the resignation of Doug Phillips from Vision Forum….(read Doug’s letter of resignation here: Vision Forum Ministries) Among men who crave significance, the Spirit’s fruit is with the broken, the poor in spirit, and the meek.  Those who are humble enough to be most important to just a few; their families and their local church bodies.  These are the people and...

“Even as the Chaldeans formerly measured their natural day differently from the Israelites; they put the day first and the night after; but the Israelites, on the contrary, according to the order that was observed in the creation; for in the beginning darkness was upon the face of the deep, and of every one of the six days it is said, “The evening and the morning were the first day, “etc. So the times of the world and of the...