We all have earthly masters. Some of them are good bosses. Some are not. But we all have a higher master who is good and does good, and he is who ultimately matters.

We give thanks to God for all things because he is good and because his love will never end.

One of my favorite phrases is “the finished work of Christ.” When Jesus died on the cross, he did not say, “My part is done, now your turn.”

Roland Bainton, in his biography of Luther, shows us the way the gospel changed Luther’s heart from a fearful man into a fearless leader of the Reformation.

As John Webster says, “Everything that is to be said of the church is said by saying, ‘We point to him.’”

In the beginning was the Word, and in the end, there he will be too,

In Ryle’s book, he wrote about “the many ways in which the faith of Christ may be marred and spoiled, without being positively denied…the very reason that so much religion called Christian, is not…” He then laid out four ways the gospel may be spoiled.

Some gospel-soaked encouragement from Martin Luther.

Colossians 1:15-20 is one of the most magnificent descriptions of Jesus in all of the Bible.