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, ...

Forgive and Move On

In his book, Lee: The Last Years, Charles Bracelen Flood reports that after the Civil War, Robert E. Lee visited a Kentucky lady who took him to the remains ...

Phantom Guilt

Amputees often experience some sensation of a phantom limb. Somewhere, locked in their brains, a memory lingers of the nonexistent hand or leg. Invisible ...

Confess Sins to God Directly

"It is not confession to man but to God, who is the true Priest of souls, that is the great need of sinful man. Private confession and the whole ...