Christianity
The Things That Please God
God approves and honors heart-religion in the present life. He looks down from Heaven, and reads the hearts of all people. Wherever He sees . . . heart-repentance for sin, heart-faith in Christ, heart-holiness of life, heart-love to His Son, His law, His will, and His word . . . wherever God sees these things, [...]
Do You Have Compassion for the Lost?
We ought to feel compassion when we think of the wretched state of unconverted souls, and the misery of all men and women who live and die without Christ. No poverty like this poverty! No disease like this disease! No slavery like this slavery! No death like this, death in idolatry, false religion, and sin! [...]
Following the Christ of Christianity
A little formal church-going, and a decent attendance at a place of worship, can never be the Christianity of which Christ speaks of. Where is our self-denial? Where is our daily carrying of the cross? Where is our following of Christ? Without a religion of this kind we shall never be saved. A crucified Savior [...]
Christianity versus Government
True Christianity was never meant to interfere with a man’s obedience to the civil power. So far from this being the case it ought to make him a quiet, loyal and faithful subject. He ought to regard the powers that be as “ordained of God,” and to submit to their rules and regulations so long [...]
True Christianity
Here is a fairly new video from J.C. Ryle’s tract written in 1895, five years before Ryle’s death, entitled True Christianity: What is Needed? For more information on other fantastic Christ-centered, Gospel-focused videos, visit the Grace Gems YouTube video channel. ► Here are the 4 points that Ryle expounds upon in his video, which are [...]
The Facts of Christianity
Christianity is a religion built upon facts. Let us never lose sight of this. The first preachers did not go up and down the world, proclaiming an elaborate, artificial system of abstruse doctrines and deep principles. They made it their first business to tell men great plain facts. They went about telling a sin-laden world, [...]
Growing In Communion With Christ
“Seek every day to have closer communion with Him who is your Friend, and to know more of His grace and power. True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person – Jesus Christ. ‘To me’, said Paul, [...]
Contemplating the Four Costs
What does it cost to be a true Christian? “Bold indeed must that man be who would dare to say that we may keep our self-righteousness, our sins, our laziness, and our love of the world, and yet be saved? I grant it costs much to be a true Christian. But who in his sound [...]
Four Costs of Becoming a Christian
J.C. Ryle writes in his classic work Holiness that there are four things a person must be ready to give up if they wish to become a Christian. Beginning Monday February 1st, we will ponder Ryle’s short quotes regarding each particular cost. __________________________________________ Mon 2/1: Counting the Cost: Your Self-Righteousness Tues 2/2: Counting the Cost: [...]
Grace To Stand in the World
“True believers are always represented as mixing in the world, doing their duty in it, and glorifying God by patience, meekness, purity, and courage in their several positions, and not by cowardly desertion of them. Moreover, it is foolish to suppose that we can keep the world and the devil out of our hearts by [...]
