PASTOR TIM JUPP

The better a man is, the more anxious is he to know the worst of his case. The more a man gets rid of sin and the more he lives above his daily faults and errors, the more he cries,, "Search me, O God, and know my heart; O try me and know my thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting."  Bad men do not want to know their badness; it is the good...

The most important event that has ever happened since the creation of the world is the coming of Jesus Christ, God's Son, into the world. Therefore the most important thing anybody could ever learn, or any church could keep clear in its vision, is why Christ came. If Christ is the Creator, Ruler, and Sustainer of the universe as the Scripture says, and if the purpose for which he came is not...

Brother, are you still breathing? It's not too late! Seek out Jesus and you will be made well. There are moments in our lives that sear into the tracks of our minds' memory, good and bad. We cannot and we will never forget the experience. Our lives are changed forever. The date, the time, the place, all written in stone, the names of those involved and their faces and, for the believer,...

Christ was commissioned by God, and therefore he had divine authority behind him. Jesus only had to speak, and his Word was potent with leprosies, with fevers, with dropsies, indeed, and with death itself; The name of Jesus is a mighty power in heaven, in earth, and in the deep places under the earth. There is no part of the universe where the King’s name is without influence; the warrant from his...

We probably have not the faintest idea of the number, subtlety, and activity of Satan’s agents. We forget that he is king over an enormous host of subordinate spirits who do his will. We should probably find, if our eyes were opened to see spirits, that they are about our path, and about our bed, and observing all our ways, to an extent of which we have no conception. In private and in public, in...

“The storms of winter often bring out the defects in a man’s dwelling, and sickness often exposes the gracelessness of a man’s soul. Surely anything that makes us find out the real character of our faith is good.” J.C RYLE I thank God for every storm that has wrecked me upon the Rock, Jesus Christ. In seasons of severe trial, the Christian has nothing on earth that he can trust to, and is therefor...

 “None are so near to Jesus Christ as those who hear the word of God and do it. The union between him and them will live when all other ties are sundered, and will grow more intimate and delightful for ever.” "It displeases God to see his people dividing themselves up in little subgroups, with each one thinking they’re better than the other, for whatever reason. We know better. But do we alwa...

For what purpose has Christ been pleased to make his disciples the light of the world? Why has he put this honour upon his church, and upon each one of his followers? Why does God make men to be lights to other men? We are walkers through the city of this world, and we are often called to go out into its darkness; let us never venture there without the light giving word, lest we slip with our feet...

"We can never be careless with the soil of our heart for the soil determines whether the Word of God will produce fruit. Our heart is God’s field and we are farmers together with God. We must cultivate the soil of our heart with Him so that it continually produces a harvest to His glory." " The greatest, strongest, mightiest plea for the church of God in the world is the existence o...

"Those bitter tears she shed were the tears of a true contrition; they meant a holy hatred of her past sin, and a sincere determination to lead another life; and not being repelled, but accepted, by this Holy and Merciful One, deep and strong gratitude arose in her; and penitence, love, and a new and blessed hope surged and strove together in uncontrollable emotion within her heart. " Th...

It is no unusual thing for the bravest hearts to be subject to fits of doubt. What a mercy it is that it is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you! What a sweet fact that it is not how you grasp His hand, but His grasp of yours that saves you . —  Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. Hope rests on faith, and at the same...

the procession is arrested by another—a company of disciples and much people are coming up the hill. We need not look at the company but we may fix our eyes upon One who stands in the center, a Man in whom lowliness was always evident and yet majesty was never wanting. It is the living Lord , even He who only has immortality and in Him death has now met his destroyer. The battle is short and decis...

My soul, whatever your disease may be, this great Physician can heal you. If he be God, there can be no limit to his infinite power; if he be truly divine, there can be no boundary to the majesty of his might. Come then with the blind eye of your understanding, come with the limping foot of your energy, come with the maimed hand of your faith, come just as you are, for he who is God can certainly...

It is that which is established in sacred conviction and fixed determination. This is the rock to which we must dig down - sacred conviction passing into real consecration; the conviction that we owe everything to our God and Saviour, and the determination, in the sight and by the grace of God, to yield our hearts and lives to him. A character thus built, sustained by Christian services and ceremo...

Christians today are weak on holiness. We would rather point out a dozen sins in the life of someone else than take an honest look at the sin in our own life. We love to point the finger at others, but when someone points it at us, or when the Holy Spirit convicts us of sin, we are quick to defend our actions and make excuses for our failures. But, an honest Christian reserves his strictest critic...

 "Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you." Without this giving and forgiving spirit there will be nothing in civil society, and even in Christian congregations, but divisions, evil surmisings, injurious discourses, outrages, anger,...

“Whoever is truly humbled — will not be easily angry, nor harsh or critical of others. He will be compassionate and tender to the infirmities of his fellow-sinners, knowing that if there is a difference — it is grace alone which has made it! He knows that he has the seeds of every evil in his own heart. And under all trials and afflictions — he will look to the hand of the Lord, and lay his mouth...

"Everything about our religion which is not heart-work must be unsatisfactory to us . As men cannot live upon the chaff and the bran, but need the flour of the wheat, so do we need something more than the form of godliness and the letter of truth, we require the secret meaning, the in-grafting of the Word into our spirit, the bringing of the truth of God into our inmost soul: all short of thi...

A ladder, if it is to be of any use, must have its first step near the ground, or feeble climbers will never be able to mount. Our Divine Instructor begins at the beginning–with the very A B C of experience–and so enables the babes in Grace to learn of Him. Had He commenced with higher attainments, He would have had to leave the little ones behind. A gigantic step at the bottom of these sacred sta...

How blessed is the condescending grace of the choice, it takes the weak things, the foolish things. God passes by the king on purpose that he may meet with the beggar; he leaves the noble that he may lay hold upon the base, and passes over the philosopher that he may receive the fool. Oh this is strange, it is passing strange,.   Spurgeon “God could not have chosen anyone less qualified, or more o...

Our divine Master healed men every day of the week; from the first day even to the close of the seventh day, he went about doing good, and healing all manner of diseases. The healing virtue did not flow from him occasionally, but perpetually. It was not like that famous pool which was only now and then touched with the angel’s wing, and so made salutary to the sick folk lying around; but whoever s...

Whatever other men may do, this Man, this One, this One alone, if no other with Him—this One beyond all other teachers, however gentle and compassionate—this Man receives sinners! He will speak and tell of His mysteries, too, even when sinful ears are listening, for He receives sinners as His disciples, as well as His hearers.  If they will come and join the class who cluster constantly about Him,...

It is a great truth which lies at the foundation of the gospel system, that the blood of Jesus Christ, God’s dear Son, cleanses us from all sin. When a man is washed in the sacred laver which is filled with the blood of the atonement, he is not partially cleansed, but he is clean every way. Not so much as the shadow of a spot remains upon the blood-washed. If that cleansing were partial it were un...

John Piper says; there is no cost you can pay in following Jesus that won’t be made up a thousand-fold in the Resurrection! If God has worked in this way to preserve the truth of the gospel for people who need it, is this not still an incomparable challenge to give your life to the spreading of the gospel?  For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mig...

“Jesus' blood cries out for mercy. There is a sense in which we can say that Jesus' blood--being poured out into the cursed ground--also secures the new creation. There are depths here--depths that ought to make us fall on our knees, confess our sin and worship the God who sent His eternal Son to become the sin-bearing, curse-removing Second Adam! As John Henry Newman put it:    O loving...