It is the Holy Spirit's work to convict of sin and apply comfort. And the Christian can resist these operations. But if it has become...

It has been common practice among Calvinists to add a postscript of SDG or Soli Deo Gloria in their communications with each other, espe...

We all know of the importance of the mortification of sin , but sometimes the concept floats off like a balloon up in the skies of abstrac...

In the work entitled, A Treatise of the Dominion of Sin and Grace , John Owen describes the antithesis as being in either of two possible...

John Owen , with great pastoral care and sensitivity, answers the question: Discourse IX (Delivered April 19, 1677) Question. Whethe...

The process of being conformed to the image of the Lord Jesus Christ, called sanctification , is a lifelong dynamic of the Holy Spirit rev...

If any Christian man would be honest with himself, he might readily agree with me when I say that the sin of sexual lust just might be th...

In the Christian's lifelong battle against indwelling sin, his heart is the prize defended and assaulted. Proverbs 4:23 and John Owen ...

Cast a doubt on whether Mohandas Gandhi (or even Mother Teresa and Cory Aquino) is in heaven, enjoying eternal bliss in the presence of Chri...

Imagine your best good work for God and your most heinous act. What do the two have in common? Sin. Both are tainted with it, the latter...

"It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes" (Ps. 119:71). Why is it that something which would ...

God cures David of adultery by killing his endeared child. There is some Delilah , some darling, some beloved sin or other that a Christia...

One of the reasons why I inveterately adore the American Pitbull Terrier—and probably why most fanciers fancy them as well—is that this bre...

We are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, and in Christ alone. The recovery of the doctrine of justification was the crowning achie...

Indwelling sin—it is the scourge of the Christian life, even more so than the world or the devil. Though the Christian has been made a part...