Cast Your Deadly ‘Doing’ Down
IT IS FINISHED* Nothing, either great or small— Nothing, sinner, no; Jesus died and paid it all, Long, long ago. “It is finished!” yes, indeed, Finished, ev’ry jot; Sinner, this is all you need, Tell...
View ArticleThe Grace of Never
Photo: Scott Mitchell, August 2016 For all the blessings, benefits, and benedictions of the Gospel, together with all its ‘yes and amens’ in Christ Jesus… …all its liberties and affirmations… … to...
View ArticleBlessed Are The Unlikely Who Get It
When Jesus blesses someone in the Gospels, he blesses only a particular kind of person. As we meander through, it surprises many to learn that the select group of people he chooses to bless are not the...
View ArticleFacing Another December
“I don’t want to be remembering Graham, I want to still be knowing him.” – Ken Hatcher, a friend At first glance it’s just a leaf. But a second tells a heart-rending story. This leaf — battered,...
View ArticleHe loves us for Him
Blue Grosbeak Jeremiah 31:3 I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. Ephesians 1:4-6 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the...
View Articleme fickle, He faithful
Bumblebee at Summer’s end. © Scott Mitchell Just this morning I retweeted this to my Twitter friends [now *there’s* a sentence I never dreamed I’d write twenty years ago]: My soul was pained to...
View Articlebut then, grace
© Scott Mitchell Jesus said we must be first drawn to the gospel of salvation by the will of the Father (John 6:44). We don’t come on our own; we are invited. I once heard a renowned Reformed...
View Articlea peculiar religion
© Scott Mitchell “How great is the happiness of loving and serving God while journeying through this valley of tears! This is the sweet peculiarity of the religion of Jesus. Oh happy, blissful state...
View Articlebehold what
Photo © Scott Mitchell Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us… 1 John 3:1 “Behold” – not simply conceived towards us and willed unto us, but actually bestowed upon us. “Behold” –...
View Articlefull term: a christmas longing
Photograph ©️ Scott Mitchell Just as surely as you placed the life of Jesus in Mary, you have done the same for me. Though in an entirely different way than Mary, I too am pregnant with glory (Romans...
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