Follow the Lamb: Part 3 – Bonar
KEEP THE CONSCIENCE CLEAN When you first saw the cross, and understood the meaning of the blood, you got your conscience ‘purged […]
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Follow the Lamb: Part 2 – Bonar
BE STRONG IN THE GRACE THAT IS IN CHRIST JESUS It was this grace or free love which first began with you, […]
Follow The Lamb: part 1 – Bonar
Your life is a Book; it may be a volume of larger or smaller size; and conversion is but the title-page or the preface. The Book itself remains to be written; and your years and weeks and days are its chapters and leaves and lines. It is a Book written for eternity; see that it be written well. It is a Book for the inspection of enemies as well as friends; be careful of every word. It is a Book written under the eye of God; let it be done reverently; without levity, yet without constraint or terror.
The Christian Battles To Be Like Christ
“He that would be holy must fight. He must war a good warfare (1 Tim 1:18); fight the good fight of faith […]
Thoughts on Scripture and the Style of Catechisms
From the archives: 2009ish Google Books. It is his republication of ancient Scottish catechisms. He said something in the preface that caught […]
Humbling Ourselves Before God
I have found the following passage drawn from Pastor Bonar’s book The Everlasting Righteousness as a great means to humble my proud […]
The Everlasting Righteousness – Chapter 3
Chapter 3 The Completeness of the Substitution In person and in work, in life and in death, Christ is the sinner’s […]
The Everlasting Righteousness – Chapter 2
Chapter 2 God’s Recognition of Substitution The mere bringing the question into the courts of law would have availed nothing, had […]
The Everlasting Righteousness – Chapter 1
Chapter 1 God’s Answer to Man’s Question How may I, a sinner, draw near to Him in whom there is no sin, […]
The Everlasting Righteousness – Preface
Preface The awakened conscience of the sixteenth century betook itself to “the righteousness of God.” There it found refuge, at once from condemnation and […]